On 6-Apr-06, at 9:53 AM, Robbie Jameson wrote:
Hi,
Congratulations on milestone 7, I've tried it with some colleagues
and it is
much faster at rendering shapefiles and also seems more stable.
I've got a question about whether anything is planned for
supporting two
things related to linestring display:
- style with name label snaking along (above or inside) each annotated
linestring rather than being displayed horizontaly
There is a way to more or less do this... I had thought that it was
on by default but it has been a while since I've looked into it.
I'll check it out and let you know what I find out.
- style with set of linestrings displayed as thick (e.g. white)
lines with
outer rims (e.g. black) so as to look more like what raster maps
with roads
on them look like.
In order to do this you have to make a custom SLD, currently you have
to use the XML editor to do it. For best appearance you can make 2
FeatureTypeStyles one that is a line of 3 thickness and one that is a
line of 1 thickness. Currently this requires 2 passes through the
data for shapefiles. For a quick approximation ( a single pass) you
can have 2 rules in a single feature type style. The problem with
this solution is that intersections will look a little funny. This
is because 1 case 1 all the thick lines are drawn then all the thin
lines are drawn but in the second case for each feature line 1 is
drawn then line 2 is drawn (rather than all thick lines for all
features). When 2 features intersect the first feature will be drawn
with both lines then the second feature will cover the lines at the
intersection. (This explanation isn't the clearest, my apologies).
Jesse
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