[mapserver-users] Rotate labels based on angle defined in attribute field

Steven De Vriendt gisaalter at gmail.com
Tue Mar 18 05:07:31 EDT 2008


thx !



On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Gregor Mosheh <gregor at hostgis.com> wrote:
> Steven De Vriendt wrote:
>  >   I'd like to rotate my labels based on an angle defined in an attribute field.
>  >   But I don't know if it's possible to do that in mapserver ?
>
>  Sure, it's called "binding" and is all the rage in 5.0  :)
>
>  LABEL
>    ..blah..
>    ANGLE [field]
>  END
>
>  This replaces the old ANGLEITEM keyword from 4.8, so if you're using 4.8
>  search the docs for ANGLEITEM.
>
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