and one more labeling question...

[Stephen Woodbridge]

This only works with truetype fonts. You can use ANGLE AUTO of
ANGLELABELITEM.

-Steve W.

Jeff Portwine wrote:
> I have seen mapserver maps with street names angled to follow the
> streets...  how do you set the angle of the text?   I've tried adding
> "ANGLE  AUTO" to the label section of my mapfile, but I don't know what
> to use for "ANGLELABELITEM"... i've never seen a shapefile of any kind
> that had an attribute showing its angle... is there some way to
> calculate this from the shapefile data?
>
> Thanks again,
> Jeff
>