Um, disregard my last reply to this message. I was wrong. My *bad* mapfile was using no label caching which doesn't take into account symbol size (that could be considered a bug itself). The URL:
http://maps.dnr.state.mn.us/cgi-bin/mapserv48?map=/usr/local/www/docs_maps/testing/placement/test.map&mode=map shows that it does take symbol size into account. (One might say too much for something like a circle symbol.) I think you'll need to post symbols and mapfile snippets... Steve >>> Bob Basques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/28/05 2:15 PM >>> All, Why isn't there a way to define how far out the Label POSITION value should be, what is the value anyway? Couldn't a label SCALE value work for something like this? For example, I' working with a fairly large Symbol and the Labels are drawing over the top of the symbols. I'm trying to align one symbol to the upper right, with left justification, and another at the lower Left with right justification. I tried with the OFFSET parameter, but the negative numbers seems to be giving MapServer heartache. So I tried it with the POSTION paramter and while it works as it should, the Labels are still ending up on top of the Symbols. With a (pixel) SCALING applied to the POSITION parameter, all would be well in my own little universe. I guess this might be an enhancement request. I did a couple of searches in Bugzilla and didn't see anything related to this. Possibly with a way to enter the negative number I can get the OFFSET parameter to help with placement, as using it along side of POSITION works fine with positive numbers. :c) bobb
