Opinions Needed - Point Labeling

[Stephen Lime]

I'm messing around with labeling layers of type
POINT. When processed all points are rendered regardless of overlap. This is how it was done in previous versions as well and that won't change. The change is related to how labels are placed for these layers. The idea is that for point layers with labels, no other text from any layer should overlap with those labels. This is similar to how annotation layers are handles, but the difference is with annotation the marker is drawn after any collision avoidance has been done so markers don't overlap either. Does this make sense?

This only applies to POINT layers that are being labeled. It's not practical to avoid collisions with all points (or other features for that matter) as there wouldn't be any room for labels.

The earthquake demo I did uses POINT and got me into trying this. Any comments appreciated.

Steve