Re: [mapserver-users] connect label to features
All, My original need for the label lines was for labeling point clusters, I wanted to see a label for each point. Having said that I understand the reasoning behind the logic we're seeing. I would suggest that along with "FORCE TRUE" that some sort of related min-distance (MINLEADERDISTANCE?) type of variable be added directly related to leader lines and when they come on/off by scale, or MINDISTANCE working inside s separate STYLE block (Does it work that way now?) for Leader lines. I think multiple STYLE blocks came after LEADERs . . . . bobb On 6/25/21, 8:28 AM, "mapserver-users on behalf of Jeff McKenna" wrote: Think Before You Click: This email originated outside our organization. Hi Luca, The implemented leader label logic does not turn on leader lines for every point or feature. (I believe this is what is causing the confusion, as reported by you and Bob) I personally could see a new parameter in the LEADER object of "FORCE TRUE" being very useful, but that would take a champion to file a new ticket (https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/issues), create a small test case (use yours, but also include the symbolset and fonts that your mapfile references, so a developer can just execute shp2img out-of-the-box), and then nudge/test/give feedback throughout the whole development process. Hope that explains more what is happening. -jeff -- Jeff McKenna GatewayGeo: Developers of MS4W, MapServer Consulting and Training co-founder of FOSS4G http://gatewaygeo.com/ On 2021-06-25 9:21 a.m., Jeff McKenna wrote: > Hi Luca, > > I was able to get leader lines with your data by just commented out your > MINDISTANCE parameter in your LABEL. Here is the resulting map image: > https://pasteboard.co/K8eUIip.png > > Hope that helps. > > (please also never attach zip, images, or files, on a mailing list, > instead just upload your zip or image somewhere, and point to it here > instead) > > Have a nice weekend, > > -jeff > > > ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
Re: [mapserver-users] connect label to features
Hi Luca, The implemented leader label logic does not turn on leader lines for every point or feature. (I believe this is what is causing the confusion, as reported by you and Bob) I personally could see a new parameter in the LEADER object of "FORCE TRUE" being very useful, but that would take a champion to file a new ticket (https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/issues), create a small test case (use yours, but also include the symbolset and fonts that your mapfile references, so a developer can just execute shp2img out-of-the-box), and then nudge/test/give feedback throughout the whole development process. Hope that explains more what is happening. -jeff -- Jeff McKenna GatewayGeo: Developers of MS4W, MapServer Consulting and Training co-founder of FOSS4G http://gatewaygeo.com/ On 2021-06-25 9:21 a.m., Jeff McKenna wrote: Hi Luca, I was able to get leader lines with your data by just commented out your MINDISTANCE parameter in your LABEL. Here is the resulting map image: https://pasteboard.co/K8eUIip.png Hope that helps. (please also never attach zip, images, or files, on a mailing list, instead just upload your zip or image somewhere, and point to it here instead) Have a nice weekend, -jeff ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
Re: [mapserver-users] connect label to features
Hi Luca, I was able to get leader lines with your data by just commented out your MINDISTANCE parameter in your LABEL. Here is the resulting map image: https://pasteboard.co/K8eUIip.png Hope that helps. (please also never attach zip, images, or files, on a mailing list, instead just upload your zip or image somewhere, and point to it here instead) Have a nice weekend, -jeff -- Jeff McKenna GatewayGeo: Developers of MS4W, MapServer Consulting and Training co-founder of FOSS4G http://gatewaygeo.com/ On 2021-06-24 6:57 p.m., Luca Delucchi wrote: Hi Jeff, On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 at 21:37, Jeff McKenna wrote: Luca, I've done more testing and in fact I can get point & line features (with label leader lines) to work with that mapfile. I can now see Thomas' point, that this is a documentation issue (likely when I originally documented this I could only get it to work with polygons, but now when I test I can get points,lines,polygons to work by adapting that same mapfile). Thanks a lot, I tried again changing some parameters but I didn't get any leader lines. I'm using mapserver 7.6.2 provided by Debian I'll fix that document now. If you post your mapfile and data I can test your data locally here. here you are an example not working for me, with my output png -jeff ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
Re: [mapserver-users] connect label to features
Hi Jeff, On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 at 21:37, Jeff McKenna wrote: > > Luca, I've done more testing and in fact I can get point & line features > (with label leader lines) to work with that mapfile. I can now see > Thomas' point, that this is a documentation issue (likely when I > originally documented this I could only get it to work with polygons, > but now when I test I can get points,lines,polygons to work by adapting > that same mapfile). > Thanks a lot, I tried again changing some parameters but I didn't get any leader lines. I'm using mapserver 7.6.2 provided by Debian > I'll fix that document now. > > If you post your mapfile and data I can test your data locally here. > here you are an example not working for me, with my output png > -jeff > -- ciao Luca www.lucadelu.org <> ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
Re: [mapserver-users] connect label to features
Luca, I've done more testing and in fact I can get point & line features (with label leader lines) to work with that mapfile. I can now see Thomas' point, that this is a documentation issue (likely when I originally documented this I could only get it to work with polygons, but now when I test I can get points,lines,polygons to work by adapting that same mapfile). I'll fix that document now. If you post your mapfile and data I can test your data locally here. -jeff -- Jeff McKenna GatewayGeo: Developers of MS4W, MapServer Consulting and Training co-founder of FOSS4G http://gatewaygeo.com/ On 2021-06-24 3:12 p.m., Jeff McKenna wrote: Hi Luca, I agree with your thoughts that it would be nice if it worked with points as well. (I don't believe that I ever had it working locally with anything but polygons) Please definitely file a ticket. Thanks! -jeff On 2021-06-24 2:29 p.m., Luca Delucchi wrote: On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 at 19:08, Jeff McKenna wrote: Hi Luca, Hi Jeff, I had created that page that Thomas pointed to, I see that my test files are still available that I used to generate those map images (https://download.osgeo.org/mapserver/tickets/label-leader.zip). Give that mapfile a try with your local MapServer instance, and let me know if I need to update that test package. I tested that data and it work properly, but as Thomas reported it seems to work only with polygon, with my point data it doesn't work Should I open a enhancement (or bug) issue? I think it should be useful to have it at least for points, but also for line -jeff Thanks for your help ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
Re: [mapserver-users] connect label to features
Hi Luca, I agree with your thoughts that it would be nice if it worked with points as well. (I don't believe that I ever had it working locally with anything but polygons) Please definitely file a ticket. Thanks! -jeff On 2021-06-24 2:29 p.m., Luca Delucchi wrote: On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 at 19:08, Jeff McKenna wrote: Hi Luca, Hi Jeff, I had created that page that Thomas pointed to, I see that my test files are still available that I used to generate those map images (https://download.osgeo.org/mapserver/tickets/label-leader.zip). Give that mapfile a try with your local MapServer instance, and let me know if I need to update that test package. I tested that data and it work properly, but as Thomas reported it seems to work only with polygon, with my point data it doesn't work Should I open a enhancement (or bug) issue? I think it should be useful to have it at least for points, but also for line -jeff Thanks for your help -- Jeff McKenna GatewayGeo: Developers of MS4W, MapServer Consulting and Training co-founder of FOSS4G http://gatewaygeo.com/ ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
Re: [mapserver-users] connect label to features
On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 at 19:08, Jeff McKenna wrote: > > Hi Luca, > Hi Jeff, > I had created that page that Thomas pointed to, I see that my test files > are still available that I used to generate those map images > (https://download.osgeo.org/mapserver/tickets/label-leader.zip). Give > that mapfile a try with your local MapServer instance, and let me know > if I need to update that test package. > I tested that data and it work properly, but as Thomas reported it seems to work only with polygon, with my point data it doesn't work Should I open a enhancement (or bug) issue? I think it should be useful to have it at least for points, but also for line > > -jeff Thanks for your help -- ciao Luca www.lucadelu.org ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
Re: [mapserver-users] connect label to features
Hi Luca, I had created that page that Thomas pointed to, I see that my test files are still available that I used to generate those map images (https://download.osgeo.org/mapserver/tickets/label-leader.zip). Give that mapfile a try with your local MapServer instance, and let me know if I need to update that test package. (I think that I should start doing this for all documented features from now on, include a link to my test mapfiles) -jeff -- Jeff McKenna GatewayGeo: Developers of MS4W, MapServer Consulting and Training co-founder of FOSS4G http://gatewaygeo.com/ On 2021-06-24 2:00 p.m., thomas bonfort wrote: https://mapserver.org/mapfile/leader.html I'm not sure why it's limited to polygons though... On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 6:58 PM Luca Delucchi wrote: Hi all, I would like to know if it is possible to link a feature with its label, something like QGIS is doing in Labels -> Callouts. thanks a lot -- ciao Luca www.lucadelu.org ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
Re: [mapserver-users] connect label to features
https://mapserver.org/mapfile/leader.html I'm not sure why it's limited to polygons though... On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 6:58 PM Luca Delucchi wrote: > > Hi all, > > I would like to know if it is possible to link a feature with its > label, something like QGIS is doing in Labels -> Callouts. > > thanks a lot > > -- > ciao > Luca > > www.lucadelu.org > ___ > mapserver-users mailing list > mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
[mapserver-users] connect label to features
Hi all, I would like to know if it is possible to link a feature with its label, something like QGIS is doing in Labels -> Callouts. thanks a lot -- ciao Luca www.lucadelu.org ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
