[mapserver-users] Outline on the roads label boxes

[Nelson Correia]

I've done it with several rectangle symbols.

 

Thank you all for the quick answers! :)

 

Nelson 

 
> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:33:01 +0200
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Outline on the roads label boxes
> From: thomas.bonfort at camptocamp.com
> To: Steve.Lime at dnr.state.mn.us
> CC: nelsonwc7 at hotmail.com; mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
> 
> The label background is getting quite cluttered actually, we have
> backgroundcolor, backgroundshadowcolor, backgroundshadowsize, and
> maybe a couple of others I'm forgetting.
> 
> maybe we could add something equivalent to backgroundstyle that would
> have the same syntax as a class STYLE, that would then be passed on as
> a normal style to msDrawShadeSymbol, along with the shapeobj
> corresponding to the background shade.
> 
> we'd then have all the goodness of mapserver styles: outlines,
> symbols, opacity, etc...
> 
> just a thought,
> 
> thomas
> 
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Steve Lime <Steve.Lime at dnr.state.mn.us> wrote:
> > You can however, develop separate classes based on label length. You'd have different
> > symbols to handle wide text vs. narrow. For example:
> >
> > LABELITEM 'myitem'
> > CLASS
> >  EXPRESSION (length('[myitem]') > 5) # use a really wide shield
> >  STYLE
> >    SYMBOL 'reallywideshield'
> >     ...
> >  END
> > END
> > CLASS
> >  EXPRESSION (length('[myitem]') > 3) # use a wide marker
> >  STYLE
> >    SYMBOL 'wideshield'
> >     ...
> >  END
> > END
> > CLASS # default to a regular shield
> >  STYLE
> >    SYMBOL 'shield'
> >     ...
> >  END
> > END
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >>>> On 4/28/2009 at 12:10 PM, in message
> > <2922382e0904281010i47fadd9ds51346665bd481f51 at mail.gmail.com>, Thomas Bonfort
> > <thomas.bonfort at camptocamp.com> wrote:
> >> this isn't currently possible.
> >>
> >> best regards,
> >> thomas
> >>
> >> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Nelson Correia <nelsonwc7 at hotmail.com> 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
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> Nelson
> >>>
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