This seems like a super-common problem - why not change the default to something higher?
-mike. On Feb 2, 2009, at 9:12 AM, Christopher Schmidt wrote: > On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 10:06:04AM -0700, Jamie Robertson wrote: >> Hi List, I've been struggling with getting a few final bugs worked >> out of my >> mapping project. I was having lots of problems with labels being >> truncated >> on tile boundaries. Then I added metaTile=True to my tilecache.cfg >> and >> about 95% of the labeling issues were solved, not to mention tile >> requests >> being handled about 5x faster! However, there are still a few >> labels being >> chopped off at tile boundaries. >> >> two examples here: >> *"Ander" should be "Anderson"* : >> http://map.umt.edu/?zoom=4&lat=5194066.062&lon=272487.836&layers=BT >> *road labels shouldn't be placed that closely, chopped* : (other >> road labels >> on the map render correctly with correct spacing) >> http://map.umt.edu/?zoom=4&lat=5194344.808&lon=272348.312&layers=BTT > > What is your TileCache metaBuffer set to? It should be set to > something > like 256, rather than the default of 10. > > -- Chris > >> here are the two rules from my xml mapfile rendering the labels, >> respectively: >> <Rule> >> <ElseFilter/> >> <MaxScaleDenominator>2150</MaxScaleDenominator> >> <MinScaleDenominator>1000</MinScaleDenominator> >> <TextSymbolizer name="nameCode" face_name="DejaVu Sans Book" >> size="10" fill="#000" halo_radius="1" placement="point" >> wrap_width="10" >> allow_overlap="true" dy="-3"/> >> </Rule> >> <Rule> >> <ElseFilter/> >> <MaxScaleDenominator>2150</MaxScaleDenominator> >> <MinScaleDenominator>1000</MinScaleDenominator> >> <TextSymbolizer name="FENAME" face_name="DejaVu Sans Book" >> size="11" >> fill="#000" halo_radius="1" placement="line" spacing="600" >> allow_overlap="false" avoid_edges="true" min_distance="1200"/> >> </Rule> >> >> Is there anything further i can do to keep this from happening, >> i've heard >> about adding a "gutter", but havent seen an example of that being >> implemented. Is this completely a tilecache issue or can i modify >> my xml to >> solve this issue? >> >> My setup: >> mapnik 0.5.1 / tilecache 2.04 / Openlayers 2.5 running on Ubuntu >> server 8.10 >> 64bit >> >> Thanks! >> -Jamie Robertson > >> _______________________________________________ >> Mapnik-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users > > > -- > Christopher Schmidt > MetaCarta > _______________________________________________ > Mapnik-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users > ---------------------------------------------------------------- michal migurski- [email protected] 415.558.1610 _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
