LabelAngleItem question

[Eric Bridger]

On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 04:23, Stéphane RIFF wrote:
> My symbol is an arrow  ^  like this when angle is 0.0
> When angle is 90.0 i get <   or i thought i get  a  > oriented symbol.
> 
> How can i tell mapserver to reverse the symbols without change database
> records ???
> Thanks
> 
> Stéphane RIFF wrote:
> 
> > Another question :
> >
> > My symbol is an arrow  b   llike this when angle is 0.0
> > When angle is 90.0 i get d   or i thought i get  a  a  oriented symbol.
> >
> > How can i tell mapserver to reverse the symbols without change database
> > records ???
> > Thanks
> >
> > Eric Bridger wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 10:57, Stéphane RIFF wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>> I want to orient symbols on map. So
> >>> i create an annotation layer with a trueType symbols.
> >>> My question is which value i have to insert in angle filed:
> >>>   0 to 360 degres or -180 to 180 degres ???
> >>> Thanks
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> 0 to 360.

I don't know of any way to do this via the mapfile. We use mapscript and
have to use the negative of the angle. Seems to be a GD issue.

If you are using a database how about "select -angle, ... "?