The advantage is that you can use a styled marker as a label. I wonder what the use-case was for the change. Again, will dig and make sure this is resolved one way or the other for the 6.2 release.
Steve -----Original Message----- From: Richard Greenwood [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 11:45 AM To: Lime, Steve D (DNR) Cc: mapserver Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] mapserv 5.6 -> 6.0 label symbol change Steve, The 5.6 behavior was more user friendly, but the work around is simple enough that I don't think the issue deserves much attention. I put a FILTER on the label field and got back to where I wanted to be. LABELITEM "NUMBER" FILTER ([NUMBER]) As always, thanks for your knowledge and insight. Rich On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Lime, Steve D (DNR) <[email protected]> wrote: > I can verify the code in 6.0 that let's this happen- it's deliberate (in > msDrawLabelCache()). I have to do some more > digging to understand the rationale. At first glance I prefer the 5.6 > behavior as well. > > Steve > > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] > [[email protected]] on behalf of Richard Greenwood > [[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2012 5:51 PM > To: mapserver > Subject: [mapserver-users] mapserv 5.6 -> 6.0 label symbol change > > I have an annotation layer with a class definition that puts a highway > shield behind the highway number. In mapserver 5.6 if the number value > is an empty string no shield symbol is drawn, but in 6.0 the shield is > drawn. The data is coming from a shapefile. Two images are attached > that illustrate the issue. The class definition is below. In my case > the 5.6 behavior is preferable. So is this change deliberate, or a > bug, or is my class definition incorrect for 6.0? > > CLASS > STYLE > SYMBOL 'wyhwy' > SIZE 16 > END > LABEL > TYPE truetype > FONT arial > SIZE 8 > COLOR 0 0 0 > END > END > > Thanks, > Rich > > -- > Richard Greenwood > [email protected] > www.greenwoodmap.com > -- Richard Greenwood [email protected] www.greenwoodmap.com _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
