labeling streetlines

[Bob Basques]

Paul Smith wrote:

>Hello All
>
>I have an application that utilizes public domain tiger streetlines. When I
>add labels, there are multiple labels for street segments. How can I have
>the redundant labels removed sort of like I have merged by street names.
>
>Paul
>
>
>
This should get you close (pay particular attention to the MINDISTANCE
and MINFEATURESIZE values in the LAYER definition), you'll need to
experiment with the settings to use :

  LAYER
    NAME 'names'
    DATA '../../data/tlg01/tlg_roads_l'
    STATUS DEFAULT
    TYPE ANNOTATION
    LABELITEM 'STREETALL'
    CLASS
      LABEL
        ANGLE AUTO
        TYPE TRUETYPE
        FONT bluehigh
        ANTIALIAS FALSE
        COLOR 255 255 0
        OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
        SIZE 14
        POSITION CC
        MINDISTANCE 300
        MINFEATURESIZE 20
        PARTIALS FALSE
        ##WRAP ' '
      END
    END
    MINSCALE 501   ## 4  feet per pixel
    MAXSCALE 16000  ## 32 feet per pixel
  END