Hi, Thank you for the answer. A little screenshot shows an example with two label points inside one polygon and one polygon without a label point at all. Perhaps we could have more accurate polygon label positioning on our wish list.
-Jukka Rahkonen- Lime, Steve D (DNR) wrote: > Aihe: RE: [mapserver-users] Still impossible to force labels inside their > polygons? > > Yes, still impossible. POSITION CC + MINFEATURESIZE AUTO will get you > close. However, MINFEATURESIZE AUTO uses bounding box checks and > doesn't intersect a feature geometry with its label geometry. > > Steve > > -----Original Message----- > From: mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users- > boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Rahkonen Jukka > Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 9:17 AM > To: 'Mapserver-Users (mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org)' > Subject: [mapserver-users] Still impossible to force labels inside their > polygons? > > Hi, > > Is the short answer by Stephen Woodbridge "No" in the tread http://osgeo- > org.1560.n6.nabble.com/force-labels-to-fit-in-polygons-td4549296.html > still valid? > > I have been trying to label a polygon dataset with Mapserver 6.2 beta2 and > some labels keep on falling outside their polygons. By the way, the thread > contains an advice that does not work for me: > " By the way, PROCESSING "LABEL_NO_CLIP=ON" will fix the label point at > the polygon center. > -SteveW " > > Is the solution to create a new layer with point-on-surface function and label > then this point layer? > > -Jukka Rahkonen- > _______________________________________________ > mapserver-users mailing list > mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users >
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