[Mapserver-users] Road Labels

[Michael Schulz]

Hi Jerl,

don't know if anybody already answered your question directly, but what you are looking for is the 
MINDISTANCE directive at label level, that takes a pixel values for the minimal distance between the 
next duplicate label.

HTH, Michael


Jerl Simpson schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> I was thinking I had seen a post about this in the past, but I could not 
> find it in the archives.  Here is the problem I am having.
> 
> I have Local roads displayed with annotations.  The annotations show up 
> just fine, but every line segment is labeled.  This gives an affect 
> where the same street may be label 15 times on the within the same map 
> image.
> 
> I wouldn't mind a label showing up 1 or 2 times...and certainly more 
> than once of a road is not joined all the way through.
> 
> Is there a way to get around this?
> 
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Jerl
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