If you are storing the data in PostGIS, you could possibly take advantage of ST_Azimuth(). http://www.postgis.org/docs/ST_Azimuth.html
It takes two point objects as the args, but you could potentially use the start and end points of your linestring. David. From: mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jan Hartmann Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 10:23 AM To: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [mapserver-users] Aligning labels within a polygon Hi, I'm inputting lots of street address points in PostGIS, and try to generate labels for the streets. The convex hull of the points of a street approximate the course of the street, and I would like to position the streetname in the middle of the convex hull polygon, aligned to its dominant angle (the polygons are generally quite narrow). Is there a way of doing this with MapServer? Perhaps by thinning out the polygon to a line, for then I can use "angle follow". Jan
_______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
