[OpenLayers-Dev] Label decluttering

[christopher.schmidt at nokia.com]

On Jul 15, 2011, at 12:03 PM, ext ray.diciaccio wrote:

> The other post about decluttering spurred this thought -- is there any
> support for decluttering the labels which can be displayed over features?

Nope.

> Right now they'll overlap each other. I'd like to have them move around so
> that they "find" a clear space for themselves. If one were to implement
> something like this, would the logic be working on it down at the SVG level?

Probably. You'd need to use font metrics + other related properties to figure
out how big the text is, and adjust its location appropriately; a fix like this
is likely going to require a fair amount of mucking about at the low levels
of the renderers.

-- Chris

> Thanks,
> -Ray
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