[mapserver-users] LABEL/LEADER examples??

Stephen Woodbridge woodbri at swoodbridge.com
Tue Jun 11 11:18:08 PDT 2013


Bob,

The offset lable with a leader will only be attempted if there is a 
collision with and existing label that requires moving the label to 
place it on the image.

-Steve W

On 6/11/2013 2:14 PM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) wrote:
> All,
>
> Hello, I’ve been reading up a bit on 6.2.? and was wondering if anyone
> had a sample of the LABEL/LEADER line mapfile that I could start
> experimenting from.
>
> I want to do something like a billboard label with a leader line to some
> POINT locations.
>
> I tried some real quick tests based on the docs for LEADER, but didn’t
> get any leader lines to appear.  I suspect this might need some tweaking
> of many mapfile VARs to get it looking the way I want.  Longer term, I
> may need to do some muli-line billboard labels  (if possible).
>
> I would be glad to put my results back out somewhere public if there is
> interest.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bobb
>
>
>
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