upside down labels

[Kristjan Annus]

I just wanted to mention that I have the same problem with street name
labels. At the beginning I thougth that something is wrong with TAB
files but thanks to the postings here I found that it is an error in
Mapserver.

Kristjan

> I have the same problem and have complained about it before. I have
> reproduced it on 4.0.1 and 4.4.1.
>
>       LABEL
>         ANGLE AUTO
>         FONT "arial"
>         TYPE TRUETYPE
>         POSITION UC
>         SIZE 7
>         BUFFER 4
>         COLOR 0 0 0
>         OUTLINECOLOR 245 245 231
>         ANTIALIAS TRUE
>         PARTIALS FALSE
>         MINDISTANCE 250
>         MINFEATURESIZE 10
>       END
>
> The problem is not that all labels are upside down, just random labels
> are upside down. and a little bit of zooming will cause the labels to
> reposition just slightly and then they will flip right-side up.
>
> -Steve Woodbridge
>
> Andy Canfield wrote:
>
>> What does your label statement look like for that street layer?
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:45:08 -0800, Ryan, Adam <ARyan at co.linn.or.us>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey John,
>>>
>>> I can't help you with the label problem, but I have a question if
>>> you've got
>>> a minute.
>>>
>>> I like your site.  I see your adding little dot images with pop up
>>> functionality client-side on top of your map.  Did you compare this
>>> method
>>> to rendering the points with mapserver and using an html image map
>>> element
>>> and if so, would you mind sharing your findings?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Adam
>>>
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: John Hagstrand [mailto:john.hagstrand at INTERAGERESEARCH.COM]
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 10:15 AM
>>>> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
>>>> Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] upside down labels
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> My street maps are displaying labels upside down.  I see that
>>>> bug 564 has already been entered for this.
>>>>
>>>> Here is an example on a live customer site.  Of 48 labels, 5
>>>> are upside down.
>>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.westportnow.com/realestate/map.php?
>>> &irn=41.134325436851&irs=41.119548563149&ire=-73.309842191861&irw=-
>>> 73.324483808139&iract=zoomout&irsacct=10283
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>
>>