I agree this would be an important feature to have. For now, you should be able to hack around it by specifying the width of the outline as twice the value of the padding you want. You do loose the possibility of having an outline of a different color than the fill.
STYLE GEOMTRANSFORM 'labelpoly' COLOR 0 150 220 OUTLINECOLOR 0 150 220 WIDTH 7 END Note that I have not tried this, please post back with your results... -- thomas On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:58, Dirk Raffel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > the documentation for the STYLE element says that LABELPOLY creates a > polygon that covers the label with 1 pixel padding. > Unfortunately, 1 pixel padding doesn't look too good in my case, see this > example > image https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B6vp23tQ3ixPM2Y1Y2VhZTEtZDQ2MC00ODVkLWFiNzEtMzM3Y2FiZDY0OGQz&hl=en_US&authkey=CJ_72NMH > STYLE > GEOMTRANSFORM 'labelpoly' > COLOR 0 150 220 > OUTLINECOLOR 0 150 220 > END > Does anyone know of any workarounds to achieve a bigger padding, other than > hacking the mapserver source? > Are there any plans to further improve label styling in future mapserver > releases in a way that would solve issues like this? > Thanks, > Dirk > _______________________________________________ > mapserver-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users > > _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
