[mapserver-users] trying new label positioning - no change

Steve Lime Steve.Lime at dnr.state.mn.us
Tue Feb 17 15:29:00 EST 2009


So what are pictures 1 & 2 representing? There's certainly a difference and I would have expected
picture 2 to represent the new labeling with CC as the first choice.

Steve

>>> On 2/17/2009 at 12:42 PM, in message
<7DA25C07-8345-491D-B082-B268EE4802A5 at kyngchaos.com>, William Kyngesburye
<woklist at kyngchaos.com> wrote:
> I'm trying the new label positioning improvements for polygons in  
> trunk from
> 
> http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/606 
> 
> but AUTO seems to be ignoring the initial CC in the new ordering -  
> with no collisions with other labels, all polygons are labelled at the  
> UL corner of the polygon center.
> 
> Are there special conditions for AUTO/CC to work?  A typical label I'm  
> trying is:
> 
> LABEL
>    COLOR 0 100 222
>    SHADOWCOLOR 218 218 218
>    SHADOWSIZE 1 1
>    OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255
>    TYPE TRUETYPE
>    FONT helvetica-italic
>    SIZE 9
>    POSITION AUTO
>    WRAP '|'
>    PRIORITY 5
>    MINFEATURESIZE 16
> END
> 
> AUTO:



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