[mapserver-users] Label text always clipped by tiles

Mike Stoddart stodge at gmail.com
Wed Jan 26 12:05:28 EST 2011


I admit I haven't checked but does Google et al suffer the same problem?

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Gregor at HostGIS <gregor at hostgis.com> wrote:
>> My problem is that I need ALL labels to be complete and visible.
>
> I don't think that's possible if you're using tiles. Somewhere, some label
> will be close to a tile boundary and be truncated or omitted.
>
> If you find a mapping engine that can place labels like that (drawing half
> of a label on tile A when the point is on tile B) I would be interested to
> hear about it.
>
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