[mapserver-users] Label Annotation and repeatdistance

[Stephen Woodbridge]

REPEATDISTANCE only works with lines. What is does is to create multiple 
label points along the line. This does not make sense for ANNOTATION 
layers for two reasons:

1. annotation is a point, you can not repeat along a point
2. annotation is deprecated in 6.2 and will be going away in the future

You might try creating a line feature and label that with 
repeatdistance. Or create a grid of points that you can use to position 
you disclaimer labels with.

-Steve W

On 9/24/2012 5:17 AM, Andrea Peri wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I notice the repeatdistance don't work on a label of a type annotation
> layer.
>
> I read the doc.
> Seem the repeatdistance work only with a line layer.
> But I guess it could work also with the annotation.
> When the goal is the put many disclaimers on a map.
>
> Is this an enhancement feature or a bug of the actual repeatdistance
> command. ?
>
> This is my mapfile:
>
>    LAYER
>      NAME "rt_ofc.10k10.disclaimer"
>      STATUS OFF
>      TYPE ANNOTATION
>      TRANSFORM LL
>      FEATURE
>        POINTS
>          80 -20
>        END
>        TEXT 'Disclaimer Map...'
>      END
>      METADATA
>        "wms_title" "...."
>        "wms_abstract" "..."
>        "wms_layer_group" "..."
>      END
>      CLASS
>        LABEL
>          TYPE TRUETYPE
>          FORCE true
>          COLOR "#FFFFFF60"
>          ANTIALIAS false
>          PRIORITY 10
>          SIZE 10
>          ANGLE 0
>          FONT "LiberationSans-Regular"
>          POSITION UR
>          REPEATDISTANCE 100  <--- seem don't work
>        END
>      END
>    END
>
>
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