LABELANGLEITEM in MS 5.0 using OGR:LabelAngle for annotation layer

[mikesaunt]

We're trying to get an annotation layer from MapInfo format (text only now lines, points etc to follow) to render but to use the angle stored in the MapInfo feature (not from an attribute column) - we used to be able to use LABELANGLEITEM "OGR:LabelAngle" in v4 but v5 seems to have us stumped as the bindings seem to only work against fields names

[tamas]

After inspecting this issue the problem should be dedicated to a change in the OGR implementation that have been committed in: ​http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/changeset/12686

It seems that in ogrfeaturestyle.cpp the created CPLString is destoyed after the OGRStyleTool::GetParamStr function returns, and therefore and empty string is passed back to mapserver.

return CPLString().Printf("%f",sStyleValue.dfValue);

I reassign this bug to Frank and reopen the corresponding ticket.

​http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/1979

I volunteer to make a test if the problem have been fixed.

[tamas]

Applied the fix for gdal 1.5 and above.

[tamas]

Closing for now