[Qgis-user] Single label on multipart polygon

[Alex Mandel]

On 02/03/2012 12:21 PM, Vivien Deparday wrote:
> Hello:
> I have a polygon layer (a shapefile) with several features that have
> multiple parts (administrative zones that include landmass and numerous
> islands). When I enable the Labels on it, I end up with the same label
> repeated many times for the features that have multiple parts.
> I would like to have only one label for each feature otherwise the
> labels are not legible as they overlap each others.
> 
> I found the following option in the advanced labelling features: "Label
> every part of multi-part features" but this didn't change anything (even
> though it sounds like this would do the opposite of what I would like so
> it should be good by default)?.
> 
> Am I missing something? Is it an issue with my shapefile? or should I
> report a bug?
> 
> I have Qgis 1.7.3 on ubuntu.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Vivien

Vivien,

Turn off the current labeling you have and only used the Advanced
labeling tool. I know its not clear but the labeling in the properties
of a layer and the advanced labeling are completely separate so you have
to make sure to use on or the other and not both.

Make sure to ->not<- check that box and by default you should only get
one label per record.

Thanks,
Alex