avoid label collision in scalebar

[Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)]

Another option could be to just leave out some of the labels, for 
instance if I have 5 intervals, just display 3 labels instead of 6. IMHO 
that would be the best option.

Best regards,
Bart

Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) schreef:
> For my use case only the third option would solve it. I have overlaps 
> when displaying 0.4 and 0.6 km for instance, so changing to meters 
> will make it worse, and the precision if as low as it goes.
>
> But then again, I can just reduce the number of intervals for now I 
> guess.
>
> Thanks for the idea Steve, though some enhancement in this area would 
> be nice ofcourse :-)
>
> Best regards,
> Bart
>
> Steve Lime schreef:
>> Bart: There is no mechanism in place at the moment to avoid this. There
>> would be a couple of strategies
>> to employ in the C code, which one would depend on the nature of the
>> overlap (e.g. too many places vs.
>> to many intervals):
>>
>>   - allow definition of a format string for labels
>>   - define a unit of measure hierarchy (e.g. km -> m -> cm)
>>   - automatically reduce the number of intervals if overlap is
>> detected
>>
>> Just some ideas...
>>
>> Steve
>>  
>>  
>>>>> "Eijnden, Bart van den (AGI)" <b.vdeijnden at AGI.RWS.MINVENW.NL>
>>>>>         
>> 12/27/2006 9:47:12 AM >>>
>> Hi list,
>>  
>> is there a way to avoid label collision in the scalebar?
>>  
>> Currently, when I zoom in very far, the labels overlap which makes the
>> scalebar unreadable.
>>  
>> Is it possible to avoid this, if so does anybody have a set of SCALEBAR
>> settings to share?
>>  
>> Thanks in advance.
>>  
>> Best regards,
>> Bart
>>
>>
>>
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