Symbols within an area

[James Sohr]

Matt,

This is actually the result of a very-beta-level MapScript function I
wrote that draws path-following text labels for a given layer.


I say it's very beta since it doesn't do any sort of collision detection,
and in some cases can produce upside down or backwards labels.  I am
working on those issues, as well as adding auto line-wrapping and auto-
placement features sometime in the future.

Still, if anyone is interesting in playing with the present version, I can
share the function and/or the madness behind it.

Thanks,
  James




On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 10:24:24 -0700, Matthew Perry <perrygeo at GMAIL.COM>
wrote:

>James,
>
>  {slightly off-topic} In the example gif,  How did you generate the
>labels to curve with the road? I wasn't aware of any mapfile
>configuration that would allow you to spline text labels like this. Did
you
>accomplish this with mapserver proper or a custom mapscript solution?
>
>Thanks,
>--
>Matt Perry
>Humboldt State University
>perrygeo at gmail.com