Overlapping symbols

[Martijn van Exel]

Dear MapServer users,

I have a mapfile with which MapServer (4.4) produces a topographic base layer with thematic symbols on top. I have one layer containing all the thematic data (point features) which I represent with symbols through the use of classes. This works of course :-) The problem however is that the symbols regularly overlap. E.g. I have a class for Hotels and one for Restaurants. It is not uncommon for one address to have both. The result is a messy overlap of hotel and restaurant symbols. Not nice. Is there any way around this without touching the source data?

Thanks i.a. for any pointers,
Regards,

Martijn van Exel
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