The labeling code does a little bit of moving labels around (ie.
grouping) but it also has control as to stopping labels from
overlapping.  I'm currently testing all this out and writing
documentation - hopefully available at the end of the week.

This leads to a problem because the PointSymbolizer *always* puts a
point on the map for every single input geometry.

The labeling code is a bit trickier - not every point will be labeled
(actually you can control this behavior; but putting 100,000 labels on
a map is crazy) and it may choose a slightly different location (and
rotation) than the PointSymbolizer.

This means that your PointSymbolizer and TextSymbolizer are 'out of
alignment' (and the specification acknowledges this).  This is a
*major* pain the bum.

The patch that was submitted tries to put them back in alignment + add
new functionality by putting a PointSymbolizer-like "thing" INSIDE the
TextSymbolizer so they are rendered simultaneously and remain in
alignment.

dave

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