[mapserver-users] STREET LABEL WON'T FOLLOW THE STREET

[Rahkonen Jukka]

Hi,

What do you mean by "instead"? Really that texts do not follow the streets at all, or that they do follow the line, but just a few labels are shown on a map?

Label disappearing must be due to collision handling mechanism. See what happens if you add FORCE TRUE to label definitions, that should draw always all the labels and you can see if the labels are following the lines or not. If they do then you need just to play with label MINDISTANCE and MINFEATURESIZE parameters so that you'll get more labels which do not collide.
I have actually never played with labels myself, I was just reading the mapfile reference and tried to think what might be wrong with your map. I hope my suggestions are not misleading.

-Jukka Rahkonen-




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Lähettäjä: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org puolesta: ntiamoah bernard
Lähetetty: pe 17.10.2008 18:29
Vastaanottaja: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
Aihe: [mapserver-users] STREET LABEL WON'T FOLLOW THE STREET
 
Hi guys
I need help in making the street labels follow the street. Someone suggested this code below but it makes most of the labels disappear instead. Help please
 
CLASS
        EXPRESSION '4'
        COLOR 0 0 0 # dummy color
        SYMBOL 0
        LABEL
                 SIZE  tiny
                 OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255
                 ANGLE FOLLOW
                 POSITION  AUTO
                 OFFSET  0 0
                 COLOR  0 0 0
                 BUFFER 2
                 MINDISTANCE 200
                 PARTIALS FALSE
                 MINFEATURESIZE 20
            END
       END
 
Berrnard
Indiana
 

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