[mapserver-users] Label Follows streets alignment issue

[Stephen Woodbridge]

thomas bonfort wrote:
> Steve,
> I haven't noticed anything special, nor do I really understand what
> problem you mention.
> attached is a test image I used to check. do you see anything wrong in it?
> could you make a minimal test case to reproduce, or attach an image
> showing the problem?

Thomas,

Thank you. Your test image actually shows the issue I was mentioning. 
Look at the left column, 4th and 7th image down. It looks like the gap 
between the bottom of the text at the start of the label is farther from 
the dark edge of the line than it is at the end of the label. This would 
indicate the label is rotated fractionally too much in the clockwise 
direction.

Some possibilities are:

1) it is rotated slightly off, rounding issue? other?
2) the jitter in the individual character placement is causing this
3) it is an optical illusion
4) it has something to do with the font being used
5) something else totally

If I look at Google maps, I do not notice this effect and I have had a 
few separate clients notice this and ask about it, hence my inquiry.

Thank you for taking your time to looks into this.

Best regards,
   -Steve W

> cheers,
> thomas
> 
> --
> Thomas Bonfort
> 
> Camptocamp France SAS
> Tel : +33 (0)4 79 26 57 97
> thomas dot bonfort at camptocamp dot com
> http://www.camptocamp.com
> 
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 5:57 AM, Stephen Woodbridge
> <woodbri at swoodbridge.com> wrote:
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>>  I have noticed that labels in a google style symbology that follow a
>>  straight line segment at approximately 45 degrees upper left to lower
>>  right and slightly off being aligned with the street.
>>
>>  It is just enough to be annoying once you notice it.
>>
>>  Have you noticed this?
>>  Can this be fixed?
>>
>>  Thanks in advance,
>>    -Steve W
>>  _______________________________________________
>>  mapserver-users mailing list
>>  mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
>>  http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: bug.png
Type: image/png
Size: 21603 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-users/attachments/20080328/c5817e6f/attachment.png>