Labels Problem

Stephen Woodbridge woodbri at SWOODBRIDGE.COM
Wed Aug 11 14:07:26 PDT 2004


Try removing the "POSITION UC"

-Steve

Skweda O'Bomsawin wrote:

> Hi list!
>
>
>
> I have a weird label problem with Mapserver.  I try to display street names
> with an angle set to auto.  My map file looks like this:
>
>
>
> CLASS
>
>         Name 'road_labels'
>
>         LABEL
>
>             TYPE TRUETYPE
>
>             FONT "arial"
>
>             SIZE 7
>
>             MINSIZE 4
>
>             MAXSIZE 256
>
>             POSITION UC
>
>             ANGLE AUTO
>
>             BUFFER 2
>
>             MINDISTANCE 150
>
>             MINFEATURESIZE 20
>
>             COLOR 100 50 0
>
>             SHADOWCOLOR 0 0 0
>
>             SHADOWSIZE 0 0
>
>             PARTIALS FALSE
>
>         END
>
>     END # Class
>
>
>
> As you can see on the picture I have sent, I am unable to get the labels
> centered on the street lines.  Some names are as far as 400m from the center
> of the street and the translation seems to be always parallel to the street
> line.  I'm using Mapserver 4.0 with Postgis 0.7 on a Whitebox Linux with gd
> 1.8.4-12 and freetype 2.1.4-4.
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Skweda O'Bomsawin
>
> sobomsawin at kassini.com
>
>
>
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