[mapserver-users] labeling streets

[Raivo Alla]

Hi,

I think I found the cause.
When declaring ANGLE AUTO, then MINFEATURESIZE auto was working.
But with ANGLE FOLLOW there was a problem displaying labels.
Could it be considered as a bug?


Raivo

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Raivo Alla<snaperski at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I added red box to visualize line vertices
> (style
>  geomtransform "start"
>  symbol "box"
>  color 255 0 0
>  size 6
>  end) and the result is displayed here:
>
> http://picasaweb.google.com/snaperski/Ort#5345215158256974066
>
>
> Best wishes,
> Raivo
>
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Thomas
> Bonfort<thomas.bonfort at camptocamp.com> wrote:
>> Raivo,
>>
>> are you sure that your streets only contain one feature?
>> If you are using 5.4+, you can check by appending a geomtransform
>> style to your street layer, to draw a symbol at the beginning of each
>> feature:
>>
>> style
>>  geomtransform "start"
>>  symbol "circle"
>>  color 255 0 0
>>  size 15
>> end
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> thomas
>>
>> www.camptocamp.com
>> +33 4 79 26 57 97
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 07:50, Raivo Alla<snaperski at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Thank You,
>>>
>>> so it should be, but somehow in my case it does not work properly.
>>> When i have no declaration of MINFEATURESIZE, then the picture looks fine:
>>> http://picasaweb.google.com/snaperski/Ort#5345194219497220482
>>> But when I add MINFEATURESIZE AUTO, most labels just disappear, even
>>> if they have enough space to fit in:
>>> http://picasaweb.google.com/snaperski/Ort#5345195269825705586
>>>
>>> And those labeled straight streets contain only one feature (line
>>> feature) each - so the label should fit in decently.
>>>
>>> Label is declared this way:
>>>                LABEL
>>>                        TYPE truetype
>>>                        ANTIALIAS true
>>>                        FONT "arial"
>>>                        COLOR 240 240 240
>>>                        OUTLINECOLOR 52 52 52
>>>                        SIZE 9
>>>                        force false
>>>                        MINDISTANCE 250
>>>                        MINFEATURESIZE auto
>>>                        ANGLE follow
>>>                        POSITION cc
>>>                        BUFFER 1
>>>                END
>>>
>>> Changing FORCE or POSITION parameters didnt help either....
>>>
>>>
>>> Raivo
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Christy Nieman<cnieman at dmsolutions.ca> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> You could set MINFEATURESIZE to AUTO and then only the labels that fit on
>>>> the lines should be drawn.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Christy
>>>>
>>>> Raivo Alla wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello!
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm stuck in simple-looking problem, but the solution is just hiding
>>>>> somewhere.
>>>>>
>>>>> The question is: how I can label only those line features, whos label
>>>>> does not run over the line like that:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://picasaweb.google.com/snaperski/Ort#5344831130138846050
>>>>>
>>>>> As street lengths are very different, I cant solve the problem by
>>>>> setting suitable MINFEATURESIZE for
>>>>>
>>>>> respective MINSCALE,MAXSCALE range.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> All the best,
>>>>> Raivo Alla
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