The multi-slope law for the area-mean received signal power decay has been considered a more adequate choice for modeling and analyzing the propagation path-loss in wireless networks. This paper presents a method for fitting localmean signal power measurements to a non-increasing, two-or three-slope piece-wise linear function of the transmitter-receiver distance. The optimal fit is achieved by means of the shape language modeling (SLM) tool when configured to the first order spline fitting option, with two and three segments. Some results are presented and discussed, and guidelines are given in what concerns the strategy for sampling the received power levels.