I also would be very happy to test any patch that added label formatting capabilities.
Cheers, Stephen On Wednesday 10 March 2010 15:05:51 Lime, Steve D (DNR) wrote: > Hi Stephan: This is an increasingly asked question but at the moment I > don't have a good solution or workaround, it's just not possible at the > moment. There's a ticket already filed on the subject and it will be > addressed in 6.0. > > Are you in a position where you could apply a patch to deal with the > problem if one were available? > > Steve > > ________________________________________ > From: mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org > [mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Stephan Holl > [stephan.h...@intevation.de] Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 7:54 AM > To: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org > Subject: [mapserver-users] LABEL-formatting options > > Hello mapservers, > > we are using MapServer for visualizing shapefiles with double entries > inside. > > Mainly this are contour-lines from waterdepth. The double values have > 32 decimal places and mapserver tries to render them _all_ along a > contourline. > This does not look nice... > > Is there an option to trim the values with a dedicated > mapfile-parameter, e.g. where a prinft-syntax can be used to format the > values? > > The shapefiles are generated automatically so adding another column with > trunc()ed or round()ed values is no option. > > Are there any options to format label-values/strings? I have not found > anything in the docs. > > TIA > > Stephan > > -- > Stephan Holl <stephan.h...@intevation.de> | Tel.: +49 (0)541-33 508 3663 > Intevation GmbH, Neuer Graben 17, 49074 OS | AG Osnabrück - HR B 18998 > Geschäftsführer: Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner -- ============================================================================= Stephen Davies Consulting P/L Voice: 08-8177 1595 Adelaide, South Australia. Fax : 08-8177 0133 Computing & Network solutions. Mobile:040 304 0583 _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
