[Mapserver-users] Label mindistance not working for me

[Matthew Haines]

I'm having trouble with label mindistance.  I have set it, but my labels 
still collide.  What exactly is the equality comparison used?  Is it a text 
comparison of the label names?  My data file has a different line segment 
for each block on the street.  If the map is zoomed to show eight blocks, I 
get eight labels.  A few extra labels is okay, but not when they are all on 
top of each other.

Adding or removing BUFFER, MINDISTANCE, and MINFEATURESIZE all don't seem to 
change the output map, which has identical labels stacked to the point of 
illegibility.

Matthew

LAYER
	NAME "bk_streets"
	CONNECTIONTYPE OGR
	CONNECTION "data/streets/lion03C/bklion.tab"
	MAXSCALE 6000
	STATUS DEFAULT
	FORCE TRUE
	TYPE LINE
	LABELITEM 'Street'
	LABELCACHE ON
	POSTLABELCACHE TRUE
	CLASS
		COLOR 255 255 255
		LABEL
			ANGLE AUTO
			COLOR 31 231 31
			BUFFER 100
			FORCE FALSE
			MINFEATURESIZE AUTO
			SIZE 12
			TYPE TRUETYPE
			FONT arial
			MINDISTANCE 50
		END
	END
END

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