[mapserver-users] ANGLE FOLLOW with MINFEATURESIZE AUTO

[Jeff McKenna]

Raivo Alla wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> is there any hope that mapserver will in the future support curved
> labels with MINFEATURESIZE AUTO settings?
> Would be nice to display street labels displayed only when they have
> enough space in the line segment...

Raivo,

We hit your same problem while testing for the FOSS4G2009 benchmarking 
exercise[1].  The change has been added[2] (curved labels with the 
minfeaturesize auto setting) and will be available in the next beta 
release.

For those that are saying "what the heck does MINFEATURESIZE AUTO do?", 
like me recently, it will only show labels that are larger than the 
feature.  You can see it in action with the benchmarking roads layer[3]

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Benchmarking_2009
[2] http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/3151
[3] 
http://64.222.187.168/cgi-bin/mapserv560beta2?MAP=/opt/benchmarking/mapserver/vector-by-merged.map&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=getmap&layers=roads-merged-labeled&STYLES=&SRS=EPSG:4269&WIDTH=950&HEIGHT=600&FORMAT=image/png&BBOX=-96.79344550384396,32.76888304968294,-96.78588564285151,32.77365769873079

-jeff


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