Re: [mapserver-users] Avoid labels over particular lines

2012-03-23 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
*On Behalf Of *Matt McClelland *Sent:* Thursday, March 22, 2012 10:03 PM *To:* Brent Fraser *Cc:* mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org <mailto:mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org> *Subject:* Re: [mapserver-users] Avoid labels over particular lines I love this idea Maybe the ability to give a feat

Re: [mapserver-users] Avoid labels over particular lines

2012-03-23 Thread Brent Fraser
ursday, March 22, 2012 10:03 PM *To:* Brent Fraser *Cc:* mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org *Subject:* Re: [mapserver-users] Avoid labels over particular lines I love this idea Maybe the ability to give a feature priority level of 'label avoidance' So features like Contours (that may cover

Re: [mapserver-users] Avoid labels over particular lines

2012-03-23 Thread thomas bonfort
ve > > > > From: mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org > [mailto:mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Matt > McClelland > Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 10:03 PM > To: Brent Fraser > Cc: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org > Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Avoid labels

RE: [mapserver-users] Avoid labels over particular lines

2012-03-23 Thread Lime, Steve D (DNR)
omit labels. Steve From: mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Matt McClelland Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 10:03 PM To: Brent Fraser Cc: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Avoid labels over particular

Re: [mapserver-users] Avoid labels over particular lines

2012-03-22 Thread Matt McClelland
I love this idea Maybe the ability to give a feature priority level of 'label avoidance' So features like Contours (that may cover a map) can be given a low priority, but features like main roads and points of interest might be given a high priority so they are always visible. (I did play with ren

Re: [mapserver-users] Avoid labels over particular lines

2012-03-22 Thread Brent Fraser
Steve, I wonder if it would be possible/economical to extend the label cache to have some kind of feature density "map"/weighted mask to help in determining a preferred label location... Best Regards, Brent Fraser On 3/22/2012 6:19 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: On 3/22/2012 8:09 PM, Matt

Re: [mapserver-users] Avoid labels over particular lines

2012-03-22 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 3/22/2012 8:09 PM, Matt McClelland wrote: Hi All Is there a way in mapserver (6.0) to prevent labels appearing over a map feature? I have a highway and I want to prevent labels (town and other names from other layers) sitting over the highway. I guess something like Buffer in labels. No, w

[mapserver-users] Avoid labels over particular lines

2012-03-22 Thread Matt McClelland
Hi All Is there a way in mapserver (6.0) to prevent labels appearing over a map feature? I have a highway and I want to prevent labels (town and other names from other layers) sitting over the highway. I guess something like Buffer in labels. thanks Matt :)