Ack! Labelling numeric fields bug.

[Delfos, Jacob]

Hi Steve,

I run into this every now and then. I'm not sure if I'd call it a
MapServer bug, because it seems to be a matter of the DBF column
formatting. It goes away if I open my DBF file in a spreadsheet program,
and specify a smaller number of decimal places (be aware that OpenOffice
doesn't always do this right). Or if I round it to 0 decimal places in
ArcGIS. Not sure if this helps, considering the quantity of shapefiles
you have....

Regards,

Jacob

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: UMN MapServer Users List 
> [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of Stephen Woodbridge
> Sent: 2 May 2007 08:32
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Ack! Labelling numeric fields bug.
> 
> I have a shapefile, actually 10s of thousands of shapefiles that have 
> contour lines and I want to label them. The problem is that they are 
> defined as:
> 
> 15.     ELEVATION       N       31      15
> 
> and when a use this field to label my map, mapserver zero fills the 
> field out to 15 digits of zeros!!! So a value of 10 in the field gets 
> labeled as 10.000000000000000
> 
> I think this is a little extreme! :) OK, it is kind of cool 
> to see these 
> long snakes follow the contour if I use ANGLE FOLLOW.
> 
> I will open a bug for this, but any thoughts in a short term 
> work around?
> 
> -Steve W
> 

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