[mapserver-users] Points and labels always together

Christy Nieman cnieman at dmsolutions.ca
Wed Apr 29 08:16:45 EDT 2009


Hi,

If you use an ANNOTATION layer instead of POINT, the only points that 
will be drawn are those where the labels will be drawn.

Christy

Nelson Correia wrote:
> Hi all,
>  
> Is it possible to have points and labels always drawn together when in 
> a POINT layer? The objective is to draw localities on a map, and I 
> don't want points or labels to appear alone.
>  
> The problem is with LABELCACHE that when turned on, the points are all 
> drawn, but only the labels that fit on the map will be drawn. This 
> leads to some points without the correspondent labels. I think 
> LABELCAHE turned off is not an option, because then the labels will be 
> overlapped.
>  
> Any ideas?
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Nelson
>
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