[OpenLayers-Users] Avoiding label collisions

[Kris Geusebroek]

Hi Nathan,

You might want to consider the Cluster Strategy.
this strategy is designed to cluster points who are close together. This way you can label the cluster instead of the individual points on higher zoom levels

Cheers Kris

Met vriendelijke groet, Kind regards,

Kristiaan Geusebroek
Consultant


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On Oct 17, 2012, at 12:12 AM, Andreas Hocevar <ahocevar at opengeo.org<mailto:ahocevar at opengeo.org>> wrote:

Hey,

OpenLayers does not do any label collision management. If you want
nice labels, you might want to consider rendering your data on a
server (WMS, e.g. GeoServer or MapServer).

Andreas.

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Nathan Wiebe <nwiebe at gmail.com<mailto:nwiebe at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi, I've got a project using OpenLayers that shows units driving around to
various locations on a map.  These I'm using 5 different
OpenLayers.Layer.Vector layers from GeoRSS feeds to display different kinds
of units.  The base layer of the map is static prerendered tiles.    I'm
having trouble with the labels for the units and location overlapping making
things unreadable.  I've tried placing for one type of unit above the
marker, and placing labels for other types of units below the marker, but
the labels end up overlapping anyway as the units move around.

Is there any kind of label collision avoidance I can convince OL to do for
me?  Any other easy solutions?

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Nathan Wiebe

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