Are you concerned with a screen display or a plotted display? If screen display, I use Zoom layering. When at a large zoom, labels show only for the major thoroughfares, as zooms decrease, labels are visible for collectors, and at a close levels, local streets. In US we have function class codes to determining these levels, so its an easy SQL to separate the levels, and add them back in. Each level, though from the same source table, is its own subset, and layered to facilitate the zoom layer settings. The FunClass has an initial letter we don't care about, then 2 digits, the first of the digits is a major class, the second digit a subset of that class, so mid string function starts with the second character, and returns one character (the second one).
Something like Select * from MyAllRoadTable where funclass =Mid$(Funclass,2,1)=4 into Locals Select * from MyAllRoadTable where funclass =Mid$(Funclass,2,1)=3 into Collectors Select * from MyllRoadTable where funclass =Mid$(Funclass,2,1)=2 into State_Hwys Then add these three back into layer control, set the zoom label ranges. In addition, you can style override these subsets, or thematically map them to have line styles corresponding to these levels. In your particular case, you may not be able to query the data, and generate these subsets. However, you could still create several separate label tables, as opposed to one, and the labels could still be zoom layered. If its a plotted display, you will have to either print on larger paper, or label only the majors, with detail maps for different districts, etc. There is no way around hitting the wall when it comes readable font size, geographic extant and plot size. William "Woody" Woodruff Zoning Administrator Charter Township of Union, Isabella County, Michigan -84.80947000 43.61095100 2010 S Lincoln Rd, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858 (989) 772 4600 EXT 41 - FAX (989) 773 1988 Visit our web site at http://www.geocities.com/ctuzoning/index.htm -----Original Message----- From: Ellingham Morgan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 8:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MI-L Labelling Difficulties Hello, I am trying to label the streets of Sydney in a third party software that doesn't have any layer control features, I therefore need to create a set of labels stored in a separate .tab file, the problem is that Sydney is quite large and MapInfo's auto generate label functions make the labels far too big to be practable - even font size 1 is way too big. Also to make the labels of smaller areas so that they fit and then append them together later would take forever. Anyone got some ideas? Regards...Morgan Ellingham <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 14363
