[mapserver-users] Displaying multiple labels with the same lat/long

[thomas bonfort]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Ian Walberg <ian.walberg at airborne.aero>wrote:

> Steve,
>
> I thought with a layer type of point or annotation with label mode as
> auto that if there were 2 points with same lat/long only 1 would be
> displayed.
>
Not if they don't have a marker symbol attached. (as in that case the
marker would collide, and second label would be rejected)


>
> Thanks
>
> Ian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lime, Steve D (DNR) [mailto:Steve.Lime at state.mn.us]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 6:15 AM
> To: Ian Walberg; List (MapServer Users)
> Subject: RE: Displaying multiple labels with the same lat/long
>
> Not sure about clustering, but there may be other options as well:
>
> You might be able to simply use POSITION AUTO and give these labels a
> high priority. MapServer will place them. If you need markers in this
> case you'll need to draw those separately to avoid marker collisions.
> So, one layer for points and the other for high-priority labels.
>
> Version 6.2 supports multiple labels per feature. If you can
> de-normalize your data so you have 1 point plus multiple columns of
> companies (e.g. company1, company2, etc...) then you can use this
> approach. There's also leader support when things get really tight.
>
> Steve
>
>
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> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 12:11 PM
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> Subject: [mapserver-users] Displaying multiple labels with the same
> lat/long
>
> Folks,
>
> We have some data we need to display which has a number of companies in
> the same city so the same lat/long.
>
> So in these cases only one of the labels is displayed.
>
> Can this be done using the cluster functionality and where do we find an
> easy example?
>
> Thanks
>
> Ian
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