I have been trying to understand how the display of names and labels on map pages is controlled. I am talking about the following two cases: a) Labels that appear on the map itself which for the purposes here I will call 'Map Labels'. b) Names which appear in a box at the top of the GPS screen when the cursor is placed over an item on the map page which I will refer to as 'Cursor-Over' names. I appreciate the 'Map Label' display is partly controlled by the choice of type code for the polygon, line or point, but can this feature in any way be controlled by either the style configuration or the TYP file when a 'custom' extended code is used?. Also I would really like to be able to prevent the second feature ('Cursor-over' name) appearing. For example, I have line borders for polygons on my maps and I want to avoid the name appearing at the top sf the screen when the cursor touches the border line. I have tried with no description for the line in the TYP file then I get the word 'line' appearing in the top-of-screen box. Any advice welcome.
On Tue, Aug 11, Bill Lancashire wrote:
I have been trying to understand how the display of names and labels on map pages is controlled.
I am talking about the following two cases:
a) Labels that appear on the map itself which for the purposes here I will call 'Map Labels'.
b) Names which appear in a box at the top of the GPS screen when the cursor is placed over an item on the map page which I will refer to as 'Cursor-Over' names.
I appreciate the 'Map Label' display is partly controlled by the choice of type code for the polygon, line or point, but can this feature in any way be controlled by either the style configuration or the TYP file when a 'custom' extended code is used?.
You should be able to control the size of the font and if it is displayed or not with the TYP file. I think this are the keywords: ExtendedLabels=Y FontStyle=NoLabel (invisible) But depending on your GPS device, this will be overwritten by the firmware or the options the user did choose. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk, Senior Architect SLES & Common Code Base SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Dilip Upmanyu, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
Thank you. I have tried that change to the TYP file and certainly it stops display of any 'labels' on the map. However it does not have any effect on the display in the box at the top of the screen when the cursor touches an element on the screen. This is what I would like to 'stop' under specific circumstances. -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Display-of-Labels-on-Maps-tp5852149p5852183.h... Sent from the Mkgmap Development mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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