On Jul 27, 2011, at 5:06 PM, AJ Ashton wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Alex Morega <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm rendering a simple map with country borders and labels, and have come up >> against a problem with placing labels: they are always placed at the >> polygon's center, even if that center is not within the polygon itself. For >> example, in [1], the label for Croatia. By contrast, Mapnik tiles for >> OpenStreetMap[2] seem to have much better placement. What is going on? > > OpenStreetMap uses separate points for country labels, not polygons. > They are placed manually in the approximate visual centre of the > region. This is what I recommend doing for labels - you can derive a > shapefile of centroid points in something like QGIS and tweak the > placement of points that aren't quite right.
That makes sense. Thanks for the suggestion. > There is a quick solution for just the polygons, however. Add a > `placement="interior"` parameter to your TextSymbolizer and the label > should always appear within the polygon. (This is only available in > Mapnik trunk.) It doesn't seem to do anything different from `placement="point"`, a bug perhaps. I do recall rendering the map a few weeks back and getting the labels fully confined within the polygon. Anyway, I have my workaround now. Cheers, -- Alex _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
