[mapserver-users] Outline on the roads label boxes

[Christy Nieman]

Hi,

You can use an annotation layer with a symbol.  Something like:

LAYER
  NAME "labels"
  TYPE ANNOTATION
  DATA "/your/data/path/"
  STATUS ON
  LABELITEM "RD_NUM"

  CLASS
    NAME "road_numbers"
    STYLE
      SYMBOL 'rectangle'
      COLOR 255 255 255
      OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
      SIZE 16
    END
    LABEL
      TYPE TRUETYPE
      ANTIALIAS TRUE
      FONT "myfont"
      SIZE 8
      POSITION CC
      COLOR  0 0 0
      PARTIALS FALSE
    END
  END
END

and the symbol would be something like:
SYMBOL
  NAME 'rectangle'
  TYPE VECTOR
  POINTS
    0 0
    0 14
    25 14
    25 0
    0 0
  END
  FILLED TRUE
END

Regards,
-- 
Christy Nieman
GIS Technician
DM Solutions Group, Inc.
Email: cnieman at dmsolutions.ca
Web: http://dmsolutions.ca
Web: http://research.dmsolutions.ca

Nelson Correia wrote:
>  
> Hi,
>  
> Do you know how to write an outline on the roads label boxes, just 
> like the ones that Google Maps has? In Mapserver docs I only see an 
> outline for the letters and not for the background. Does Mapserver 
> support it?
>  
> You can see the labels (L2150, K2, K7) with white background and black 
> outline at:
>  
> http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=50.764911,10.953197&spn=0.038979,0.11158&z=14 
> <http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=50.764911,10.953197&spn=0.038979,0.11158&z=14>
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Nelson
>
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