Re: [Qgis-user] labels on maps

2012-10-02 Thread Alister Hood
benefits of the automatic label placement. -Original Message- From: M.E.Dodd [mailto:m.e.d...@open.ac.uk] Sent: Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:22 p.m. To: Alister Hood Subject: RE: [Qgis-user] labels on maps Thanks, I tried the layerlabelling in qgis 1.8 and managed to get labels

[Qgis-user] labels on maps

2012-10-01 Thread M . E . Dodd
I have a map with lots of point data which I want to label. When switching on labels lots of them end up on top of each other as some of the points are close to each other. Is there a way of automatically spacing the labels out to avoid overlap with a line going to the point from the label.

Re: [Qgis-user] labels on maps

2012-10-01 Thread Micha Silver
On 10/01/2012 04:40 PM, M.E.Dodd wrote: converted from rtf I have a map with lots of point data which I want to label. When switching on labels lots of them end up on top of each other as some of the points are close to each other. Is there a way of automatically spacing the labels out to

Re: [Qgis-user] labels on maps

2012-10-01 Thread M . E . Dodd
-user@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] labels on maps Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:48:54 +0200 From: Micha Silver mi...@arava.co.il To: M.E.Dodd m.e.d...@open.ac.uk Cc: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] labels on maps Message-ID: 5069bb66.9000

Re: [Qgis-user] labels on maps

2012-10-01 Thread Alister Hood
). -Original Message- From: M.E.Dodd [mailto:m.e.d...@open.ac.uk] Sent: Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:24 a.m. To: Alister Hood; qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Subject: RE: [Qgis-user] labels on maps Doing what I want is easy in mapinfo as you just drag and drop the labels individually