David, That was just the solution I needed. Exact label placement is much more usable. Thanks.
Bruce -----Original Message----- From: Fawcett, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 12:52 PM To: Bruce Cheney; [email protected] Subject: RE: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Label collision trouble If your data is pretty static, it might be doing it this way. You could create a point shapefile to use as label points. You would then create a layer of type ANNOTATION to place your labels. This is a lot more work up front, but it guarantees that the labels will be exactly where you want them. David. -----Original Message----- From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Cheney Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 1:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Label collision trouble Thanks for your help Dylan. That is certainly helping. I removed FORCE, dropped my SYMBOLSCALE, and removed PARTIALS. The collisions are not happening now (probably because of FORCE being removed). I would like PARTIALS to stay on but they are messy - crossing boundaries, etc. Is there some way to force labels in a polygon to stay in the same position relative to the center - I don't want them moving around every time a user pans or zooms in? Thanks again. Bruce -----Original Message----- From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dylan Keon Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 11:41 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Label collision trouble On 11/22/2006 09:50 AM, Bruce Cheney wrote: > Hello group. I am having label collision trouble. No matter what I > do the labels seem to collide with each other. I also have labels > from more than one layer colliding with each other. Obviously this > makes the map very difficult to read. I have implemented caching and > tried every other combination of attributes I can think of. Here is a > label section from a mapfile and a sample label collision. Any > suggestions? Thank you for any help you give. Bruce, What happens if you remove FORCE ON (should be FORCE TRUE), or change it to FORCE FALSE? You might also try POSITION AUTO. With so many labels you'll really have to finesse POSITION, FORCE, LABELMINSCALE, LABELMAXSCALE, PARTIALS, and possibly other parameters just right for each layer. --Dylan
