[mapserver-users] Mapserver images doesn't fit well on a tiling scheme???

Dan Little danlittle at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 3 12:08:59 PST 2009


Thanks Chris and Thomas for clarifying... I think my thoughts were correct and my descriptions were not... go figure.

MfG


----- Original Message ----
> From: thomas bonfort <thomas.bonfort at gmail.com>
> To: Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at metacarta.com>
> Cc: Dan Little <danlittle at yahoo.com>; mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
> Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2009 12:01:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Mapserver images doesn't fit well on a tiling  scheme???
> 
> To summarize, here is the way to *completely* avoid truncated labels
> and edge artifacts:
> 
> * use a 10 pixel metabuffer in your tilecache config (the number of
> metatiles is irrelevant, but as Chris points out, there'll be more
> labels included if you use a 3x3 (or more) metatiling scheme than a
> 1x1 one :
> 
> metaTile=true
> metaSize=3,3
> metaBuffer=10
> 
> * set a 10 pixel edge buffer in mapserver (so no labels are rendered
> in the 10 pixels on the edges of the image) :
> WEB
>     METADATA
>         labelcache_map_edge_buffer "-10"
>     END
> END
> 
> * use PARTIALS FALSE in all your label blocks
> 
> --
> Thomas Bonfort
> CampToCamp



      



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