Re: [Geoserver-users] Tiling & labelling

2011-03-18 Thread Andrea Aime
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Chris Holmes wrote: > That's really nice, and I imagine it'd work well.  Indeed you more want to > see _something_ fast, I feel like it's ok if the labels load a bit more > slowly. > > I wonder if there's some way we could make that set up easier for users. > Like

Re: [Geoserver-users] Tiling & labelling

2011-03-18 Thread Chris Holmes
That's really nice, and I imagine it'd work well. Indeed you more want to see _something_ fast, I feel like it's ok if the labels load a bit more slowly. I wonder if there's some way we could make that set up easier for users. Like make a special layer type in OpenLayers, and some way to ease con

Re: [Geoserver-users] Tiling & labelling

2011-03-18 Thread Ivan Grcic
Hi all, some time ago i had project where labeling was also pretty important (parcels) so I came to one solution that perfectly suited my needs. As I used OpenLayers for client, i had tiled and untiled layers at my disposal. If you are only bound to tiled client, then using large metatiling would

Re: [Geoserver-users] Tiling & labelling

2011-03-18 Thread Andrea Aime
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Chris Holmes wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Andrea Aime > wrote: >> >> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Steve Way >> wrote: >> > Hi All, >> > >> > >> > >> > Just a curious question, but how do we avoid our labelling from looking >> > a >> > mess w

Re: [Geoserver-users] Tiling & labelling

2011-03-18 Thread Chris Holmes
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Andrea Aime wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Steve Way > wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > > > > > Just a curious question, but how do we avoid our labelling from looking a > > mess within openlayers or some other tiling client when trying to > configure > > th

Re: [Geoserver-users] Tiling & labelling

2011-03-17 Thread Andrea Aime
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Arne Kepp wrote: > And the really, really long answer is to fix the location of all the > labels, i.e. create a new layer that just has the labels and points > where they should be shown. Yep... that is a global optimization problem that needs to take into account

Re: [Geoserver-users] Tiling & labelling

2011-03-17 Thread Arne Kepp
On 3/16/11 4:17 PM, Andrea Aime wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Steve Way > wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> >> >> Just a curious question, but how do we avoid our labelling from looking a >> mess within openlayers or some other tiling client when trying to configure >> the overlaps etc which mi

Re: [Geoserver-users] Tiling & labelling

2011-03-16 Thread Andrea Aime
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Steve Way wrote: > Hi All, > > > > Just a curious question, but how do we avoid our labelling from looking a > mess within openlayers or some other tiling client when trying to configure > the overlaps etc which might be intersected by the edge of a tile? The shor

[Geoserver-users] Tiling & labelling

2011-03-16 Thread Steve Way
Hi All, Just a curious question, but how do we avoid our labelling from looking a mess within openlayers or some other tiling client when trying to configure the overlaps etc which might be intersected by the edge of a tile? Cheers, Steve DISCLAIMER: This emai