varibale angle in annotation layer

[Yewondwossen Assefa]

Hi There,

  You should be able to use the LABELANGLEITEM

  http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/reference/mapfile/layer

Later,

Giuseppe De Rossi wrote:
> Hi,
> I wrote the following definition of a layer:
> 
> LAYER
>     NAME 'MyAnnotationShape'
>     TYPE ANNOTATION
>     DATA 'MyAnnotationShape'
>     STATUS DEFAULT
>     LABELITEM "STRING"
>     CLASSITEM "STRING"
> 
>     CLASS
>       NAME 'All'
>       EXPRESSION /./
>       STYLE
>         COLOR -1 -1 -1
>       END
>       LABEL
>         COLOR 255 255 51
>         ANTIALIAS TRUE
>         SHADOWCOLOR 0 0 0 
>         SHADOWSIZE 1 1
>         TYPE BITMAP
>         FONT arial
>         SIZE LARGE
>         POSITION CC
>         PARTIALS FALSE
>         BUFFER 2
>       END
>       
>     END
> 
>   END
> 
> The layer is well displayed but the labels have all the same orientation
> (orizhontal), but the original orientation of those label is variable, which
> is the instruction in order to have a varible orientation ?
> How can I use the column ANGLE in the dbf which defines for each label its
> correct orientation ?
>  
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Giu
>  
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