RE: [mapserver-users] mapserv 5.6 - 6.0 label symbol change
The advantage is that you can use a styled marker as a label. I wonder what the use-case was for the change. Again, will dig and make sure this is resolved one way or the other for the 6.2 release. Steve -Original Message- From: Richard Greenwood [mailto:richard.greenw...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 11:45 AM To: Lime, Steve D (DNR) Cc: mapserver Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] mapserv 5.6 - 6.0 label symbol change Steve, The 5.6 behavior was more user friendly, but the work around is simple enough that I don't think the issue deserves much attention. I put a FILTER on the label field and got back to where I wanted to be. LABELITEM NUMBER FILTER ([NUMBER]) As always, thanks for your knowledge and insight. Rich On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Lime, Steve D (DNR) steve.l...@state.mn.us wrote: I can verify the code in 6.0 that let's this happen- it's deliberate (in msDrawLabelCache()). I have to do some more digging to understand the rationale. At first glance I prefer the 5.6 behavior as well. Steve From: mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Richard Greenwood [richard.greenw...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2012 5:51 PM To: mapserver Subject: [mapserver-users] mapserv 5.6 - 6.0 label symbol change I have an annotation layer with a class definition that puts a highway shield behind the highway number. In mapserver 5.6 if the number value is an empty string no shield symbol is drawn, but in 6.0 the shield is drawn. The data is coming from a shapefile. Two images are attached that illustrate the issue. The class definition is below. In my case the 5.6 behavior is preferable. So is this change deliberate, or a bug, or is my class definition incorrect for 6.0? CLASS STYLE SYMBOL 'wyhwy' SIZE 16 END LABEL TYPE truetype FONT arial SIZE 8 COLOR 0 0 0 END END Thanks, Rich -- Richard Greenwood richard.greenw...@gmail.com www.greenwoodmap.com -- Richard Greenwood richard.greenw...@gmail.com www.greenwoodmap.com ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
RE: [mapserver-users] mapserv 5.6 - 6.0 label symbol change
I can verify the code in 6.0 that let's this happen- it's deliberate (in msDrawLabelCache()). I have to do some more digging to understand the rationale. At first glance I prefer the 5.6 behavior as well. Steve From: mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Richard Greenwood [richard.greenw...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2012 5:51 PM To: mapserver Subject: [mapserver-users] mapserv 5.6 - 6.0 label symbol change I have an annotation layer with a class definition that puts a highway shield behind the highway number. In mapserver 5.6 if the number value is an empty string no shield symbol is drawn, but in 6.0 the shield is drawn. The data is coming from a shapefile. Two images are attached that illustrate the issue. The class definition is below. In my case the 5.6 behavior is preferable. So is this change deliberate, or a bug, or is my class definition incorrect for 6.0? CLASS STYLE SYMBOL 'wyhwy' SIZE 16 END LABEL TYPE truetype FONT arial SIZE 8 COLOR 0 0 0 END END Thanks, Rich -- Richard Greenwood richard.greenw...@gmail.com www.greenwoodmap.com ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
Re: [mapserver-users] mapserv 5.6 - 6.0 label symbol change
Steve, The 5.6 behavior was more user friendly, but the work around is simple enough that I don't think the issue deserves much attention. I put a FILTER on the label field and got back to where I wanted to be. LABELITEM NUMBER FILTER ([NUMBER]) As always, thanks for your knowledge and insight. Rich On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Lime, Steve D (DNR) steve.l...@state.mn.us wrote: I can verify the code in 6.0 that let's this happen- it's deliberate (in msDrawLabelCache()). I have to do some more digging to understand the rationale. At first glance I prefer the 5.6 behavior as well. Steve From: mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Richard Greenwood [richard.greenw...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2012 5:51 PM To: mapserver Subject: [mapserver-users] mapserv 5.6 - 6.0 label symbol change I have an annotation layer with a class definition that puts a highway shield behind the highway number. In mapserver 5.6 if the number value is an empty string no shield symbol is drawn, but in 6.0 the shield is drawn. The data is coming from a shapefile. Two images are attached that illustrate the issue. The class definition is below. In my case the 5.6 behavior is preferable. So is this change deliberate, or a bug, or is my class definition incorrect for 6.0? CLASS STYLE SYMBOL 'wyhwy' SIZE 16 END LABEL TYPE truetype FONT arial SIZE 8 COLOR 0 0 0 END END Thanks, Rich -- Richard Greenwood richard.greenw...@gmail.com www.greenwoodmap.com -- Richard Greenwood richard.greenw...@gmail.com www.greenwoodmap.com ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
