Thanks Bob
You are a genius. I started playing with the TTF font idea yesterday, but
struggled with the idea because of the lack of colour within the font. I
never considered using mapserver to stack the colours, brilliant.
I think I will use a mix of Davids suggestions using Cluster function, a
Matt,
Interesting problem. My gut solution would be to build (or find) a TTF font
of the symbols you want to display, and simply use this font to label, just
like text, only via the ttf symbols instead. You would then be able to group
the symbols, even label with multiple rows via a WRAP p
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-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Matt McClelland
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 6:15 PM
To: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [mapserver-users] Using a Symbol instead of text for a label
Hi
I have a bunch of symbols that overlap on a map. EG at a park where I want to
show an symbo
Hi
I have a bunch of symbols that overlap on a map. EG at a park where I want
to show an symbol for playground, toilet and picnic tables. The data for
each of these items are individual point data items.
I would like to ask mapserver, very kindly, to 'tile' nearby symbols into a
group
OR
Use th
