MapServer Spline

[Stephen Woodbridge]

OK, Sounds like a great feature ... Oh wait we already have that :)
Use ANGLE AUTO and truetype fonts

-Steve W.

Cord Thomas wrote:
> I understand that Mapserver currently does not support spline, and in
> reading some earlier posts, it does not appear to be on the horizon (GD
> does not support this?).
>
> Where do feature priorities get tracked?  Could we devise a voting system?
>
> As to splining, i am sure a true splining solution is not trivial, but
> what might be a reasonable solution is angled labels on the fly.  A simple
> algorithm where when mapserver determines the location of a label, it
> fixes the center point there, determines the angle (there is a proper term
> for this?) of the associated line feature and then angles the label
> accordinly - this would simply replace the attribute-based angle
> calculation with a feature based calculation.  Of course, in some cases,
> such as on very irregular shapes, this will result in some untoward
> results, but for some this might be a reasonable solution -
> LabelByLocalOrientation or some such method.
>
> Cord
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