Labels that follow streets - like Google maps

[Bart van den Eijnden]

Hi Rishi,

I think since a lot of small commercial companies are starting to use
Mapserver, this could be a very useful feature. It could be a potential
market for you guys, but you never know ofcourse beforehand how things
will work out.

I don't think a lot of our customers would have a problem paying for such
a feature, if they really need it, ofcourse depending on the price and the
license model.

I for one would be interested to see this happen.

Best regards,
Bart

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:18:25 -0500, Rishi Mehra <rishi at MAPTEXT.COM> wrote:

> Hi Steve / All:
>
> The MapText project is not dead atleast on the part of MapText, however
> we
> never were able to gauge the interest level of the MapServer community
> to be
> able to make a product. We do have a concept ready that we did
> demonstrate
> to some of the developers of MapServer in the past. If there is genuine
> interest for an add-on (for a cost) package that would yield high quality
> labeling for MapServer, we can hit the market with something in a short
> span
> of time. Let us know of the same.
>
> Regards,
> Rishi Mehra
> MapText, Inc.
> Tel: 609-716-7552
> Fax: 609-716-7553
> www.maptext.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Erv McNally" <erv.mcnally at GMAIL.COM>
> To: <MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 12:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Labels that follow streets - like
> Google
> maps
>
>
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> I think this would be fantastic. I've been struggling with naming
>> streams and railroads and getting them to look decent. I've been
>> leaning towards using a point file and angling and labeling streams at
>> set locations so I can control where and how the labeling occurs so it
>> looks decent... which most of the time, would leave me with no names
>> when zoomed in.
>>
>> At least if street naming were done, it would be a step in a positive
>> direction.
>>
>> Thanks for your efforts,
>> Erv
>>
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU]
>> On
>> > Behalf Of Stephen Woodbridge
>> > Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 10:23 AM
>> > To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
>> > Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Labels that follow streets - like
>> Google
>> > maps
>> >
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I love the way Google maps label their streets. The labels bend to
>> > follow the streets. What kind of interest is there from the community
>> > for this type of enhancement?
>> >
>> > I suppose that ideally the developers would like the GD folks or the
>> > Freetype folks to implement this, but it seems like about 2 years
>> since
>> > I originally brought it up. There is at least one bug that covers
>> this:
>> >
>> > http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=206
>> > (this bug should probably be split into two separate items)
>> >
>> > I think that "label follows" should be raised in priority because the
>> > MapText project has gone away, and this would be a very good feature
>> to
>> > have in mapserver. I'm not sure I would "spline" the label, as that is
>> > NOT what other implementations are doing and spline math is Way more
>> > complicated than plunking down characters that are aligned with the
>> > various street segments.
>> >
>> > So, in an effort to gage the community interest in this and hopefully
>> > get a developer to champion this cause, make yourself heard.
>> >
>> > -Steve W.
>> >
>>
>



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