[mapserver-users] Text orientation problem

[thomas bonfort]

Jez,
There's to my knowledge no way to do this directly in your mapfile, so
your approach seems correct. If your data resides in a postgis
database you could also do this in your DATA statement:

DATA "the_geom from (select id,the_geom,angle*10 as angle from
mytable) as foo using unique id using srid=xxxx"
...
LABEL
   ANGLE [angle]
   ...
END

regards,
thomas

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 13:32, Jez Walters <jez.walters at ipl.com> wrote:
>
> I'm not sure if I posted this correctly last time, so I'm trying again -
> hopefully I'll get some feedback this time!  :-)
>
> I'm using MapServer to display UK Ordnance Survey MasterMap vector data, but
> I've been experiencing problems when it comes to text orientation (in the
> Cartographic Text layer).
>
> The text angle is specifed in the OS GML as an integer representing 10ths of
> a degree, rather than as a floating point number (as required by MapServer).
> In order to overcome this I've been pre-processing the GML using awk, to
> divide the text orientation value by 10.
>
> Is this the best approach for rescaling the orientation value, or can this
> be performed somehow "on the fly" by MapServer?
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