[mapserver-users] Different SIZEUNITS for line width and label fontsize

[thomas bonfort]

hi,
you can use minsize and maxsize in your label: these are always pixels:

size 8
minszie 8
maxsize 8

regards,
thomas

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 12:17, Vladimir Cvejanovic
<vladimir at gessolutions.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> In the Mapfile, Is it possible to have different SIZEUNTIS for line width
> and label font in the same layer? The example is below.
>
> I have managed to solve this by defining two layers one which only displays
> the line and one which only displays the labels however this seems like a
> hack and very inefficient from a processing / querying point of view.
>
> The context is a line layer containing road lines which have a width in
> meters but labels in pixels. This would make things scale nicely Can this be
> done? Does anyone have a better approach?
>
> Thanks,
> Vladimir
>
> LAYER
>   NAME 'highway'
>   TYPE LINE
>   DATA 'highway.shp'
>
>   STATUS DEFAULT
>   TRANSPARENCY 30
>
>   LABELITEM "NAME"
>   SIZEUNITS meters
>
>   CLASS
>      NAME 'highway'
>      STYLE
>        WIDTH 5 #WANT THESE TO BE METERS
>        COLOR 55 55 55
>      END
>      LABEL
>       TYPE TRUETYPE
>       FONT FreeSans
>       SIZE 08 # WANT THESE TO BE PIXELS
>       COLOR 0 0 0
>       OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255
>       ANTIALIAS TRUE
>       ANGLE AUTO
>       MINFEATURESIZE AUTO
>       FORCE true
>     END
>   END
>  END
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