Ticket #161 (new defect)

Opened 6 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

Feature Request: Custom Annotation Control

Reported by: imap@chesapeake.net Assigned to: sdlime
Priority: high Milestone:
Component: MapServer C Library Version: 4.1
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description 

At certain mapscales, I'd like to display a state/province name
annotated with spacing between the letters, like you might seen
on printed cartographic maps...  ie.  A L B E R T A
or: P E N N S Y L V A N I A

This isn't something I want to hardcode into the data, but it
would be a nice feature to have a keyword (charspacing) or some
such to accomplish the task.  Probably a knarly task, but I 
will throw the idea out there anyway...  

Regards,

Chris

Change History

06/30/03 23:52:07 changed by dmorissette

  • cc set to morissette@dmsolutions.ca.
  • version changed from 4.0 to 4.1.
Can't be done in 4.0 for sure, maybe in a later release.

FYI the http://maptext.com/ guys are thinking of building an extension for 
MapServer 4.1 that would do this kind of stuff and much more.  This wouldn't be 
free so we might still want to consider enhancing MapServer's own labelling to 
do that as well.

07/01/03 00:38:43 changed by sdlime 

I agree, don't want to ditch it, not until we see how the MapText stuff works
out and especially what the pricing is going to be. My guess is that we'll
eventually have to add even more advanced labeling and this one's probably not
that hard to do (just adding a bunch of spaces between letters).