[mapserver-users] force labels to fit in polygons

[Patricio Gigoux]

You could generate a center point, there is a function that do it in
irregular shaped, and fit the label in it

Patricio Gigoux




El 05-03-2012 18:50, Stephen Woodbridge escribió:
> On 3/5/2012 4:44 PM, Mark Volz wrote:
>> Hello,
>> Is there a way to force labels to fit inside of a polygon, even if a
>> polygon is irregularly shaped? I noticed that with POSITION AUTO labels
>> are falling outside of my soils boundary.
>
> The short answer is no. It is an interesting problem, but it does not
> have a guaranteed result as the label might be too big to fit
> regardless. I am not even sure of the algorithm should be for
> something like this. There are a lot of parameters like:
>
> font
> font size
> wrapping the text
> changing the angle
> finding the longest line, arc or smooth polyline that fits withing the
> polygon and then have the text follow that line
>
> These are all computationally expensive to do on the fly while
> rendering. Ideally these should be worked out in advance then you can
> supply the attributes to the label via binding columns in the data.
>
> -SteveW
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