[QGIS-trac] Re: [Quantum GIS] #2954: Would be useful to be able to position text away from points

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#2954: Would be useful to be able to position text away from points
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        Reporter:  infobleep                         |         Owner:  nobody                
            Type:  enhancement                       |        Status:  reopened              
        Priority:  major: does not work as expected  |     Milestone:  Version 1.6.0         
       Component:  Symbology                         |       Version:  1.5.0                 
      Resolution:                                    |      Keywords:  position, text, points
Platform_version:  XP                                |      Platform:  All                   
        Must_fix:  No                                |   Status_info:  0                     
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Comment(by infobleep):

 Do you mean in the form of a field containing the distances? That wouldn't
 work because a lot of the text placement changes are none by eye. It is
 more of a visual look rather than a data driven look if that makes sense.

 For example today I was working on a document where I needed to place
 number labels on a map. The base map they were appearing on was a raster
 image so nothing could be moved in that. In order to avoid text clashes,
 and even grid clashes, I manually moved the numbers where possible. This
 manual moving was on a case by case basis. I was doing this work in ArcGIS
 9.3.1 and that requires one to create an annotations layer, which itself
 isn't satisfactory, as you then lose the direct link between the text and
 the layer it represents.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/2954#comment:6>
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