[Qgis-developer] Label polygons only outside of polygons

[aperi2007]

Hi,
Andreas

An option to put always a label outside from a polygon seem a good 
solution only when all the polygon are quite similar size (all small).
Perhaps a better choice could be to have a label outside from a Polygon 
only when it is could not be all inside it ?

Andrea Peri.


Il 19/07/2015 15:14, Andreas Neumann ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> I see that there are some recent new features regarding labelling:
>
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/commit/388e4047a75d155be0e677866f80d7423937ea30 
>
> and
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/commit/3a44e294de08ee03c0386179693c61a3f76e5efe 
>
>
> I have a question regarding Nyalls recent labelling improvements (the 
> new options to act as obstacle layers).
> For a polygon layer, would it be possible to force the labels to 
> always label outside of the feature? As an example I have a 
> waste-water layer with small polygons representing special-form 
> manholes (irregularly shaped). These polygons are usually too small to 
> properly display the label inside the polygon and I would prefer to 
> automatically place the label fully outside of the polygon.
>
> So, can I have a layer act both, as a label layer and as an obstacle 
> layer? Or have another option, something like "Force label to be 
> outside of the polygon", to label always outside of the polygon of the 
> feature?
>
> Here are two screenshots:
>
> This is how QGIS currently labels these polygons:
> http://www.carto.net/neumann/temp/qgis_label_over_polygon.pdf
>
> And this is how I would label them manually, outside of the polygon, 
> but hope that a future QGIS version can do this automatically:
> http://www.carto.net/neumann/temp/manual_label_outside_polygon.pdf
>
> Thanks,
> Andreas
>
>
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