[mapserver-users] Label Annotation and repeatdistance

[Stephen Woodbridge]

On 9/24/2012 8:42 AM, Andrea Peri wrote:
>  >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:
>
> ok,
> thx for explain.
> I misunderstand the mean of "repeat".
>
>  >2. annotation is deprecated in 6.2 and will be going away in the future
>
> This is really interesting to know.
> There is a better choice to write a text on a map?

You can do everything you need to with a POINT layer. There have been a 
large number of enhancements to labeling in 6.2

http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-77.html
http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-81.html (while this RFC does 
not reflect that it was voted on, I believe it was and is part of 6.2 also)

-Steve W

> Thx,
>
>
> 2012/9/24 Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com
> <mailto:woodbri at swoodbridge.com>>
>
>     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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