[mapserver-users] Making labels appear less often on adjacent tiles

[Thomas Bonfort]

yes you can do that, by adding a PROCESSING "LABEL_NO_CLIP=ON" to the
layers where you don't want repeated labels.

regards,

thomas

www.camptocamp.com
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On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 13:29, Adrian Popa <adrian_gh.popa at romtelecom.ro> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm sure this subject has been discussed before, but I wasn't able to find
> relevant information so far, so please point me in the right direction
> please.
>
> I have switched to WMS and I am now getting several tiles from my mapserver
> for one request (this is desired) (actually there are multiple WMS requests
> for a specific area). I have no label clipping issues, so that's fine also.
> The thing is, for example, if I zoom over a town and the town is split
> between several tiles, I will get a label on each tile for the town name.
> Previously, when I was requesting a large tile from my mapserver
> (single-tile), this wouldn't happen.
>
> I don't want to set the label to "not be visible" below a certain
> resolution, because that way I wouldn't get any labels below a point.
>
> So, my question is: Is it possible to show the label only once per feature,
> not once per request? My guess is not (because I wouldn't know how to
> implement it), but I'm curious if there's a solution...
>
> Regards,
> Adrian
>
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