I thought of writing a small tool to do this. The idea would be to load empty polygons and use something like a draggable verion of ELabel to place temporary labels at the centroid of each polygon. Many labels would be in a good place place immediately, and I'd manually arrange the labels that are placed inconveniently by dragging them to a better position. Then save the lat/lon of the ELabels to the database, associating them with each polygon record, and finally use that information to draw the labels on the tiles.
I might do it some day. ;-) -- Marcelo - http://maps.forum.nu -- On Apr 17, 8:02 pm, James <james.tol...@gmail.com> wrote: > I guess my next question is: does anyone have this software who would > like a very small gig...? > > On Apr 17, 7:36 am, "Maps.Huge.Info (Google Maps API Guru)" > > <cor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Labels in images are a touchy thing. I've created a proprietary > > routine to do the work myself, it took a lot of thought and > > programming to come up with it, so I am not surprised when free > > services don't add labels to the images. > > > There are a lot of issues with polygon labels: > > > 1. How do you size the label? > > 2. How do you make sure it fits into the polygon? > > 3. How do you figure out where to put the label? > > 4. How do you find the largest empty area in a polygon? > > 5. How do you deal with holes in polygons to prevent labels from being > > placed over one? > > 6. How do you handle labeling for different zoom levels? > > 7. How do you deal with labels that cross tile boundaries? > > 8. How may other issues did I forget to mention? > > > These are just a couple of issues off the top of my head. They are > > solvable but I believe unless you use some sort of professional > > software, like an ESRI or Mapinfo product, you're going to be > > disappointed. > > > -John Coryat > > >http://maps.huge.info > > >http://www.usnaviguide.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to Google-Maps-API@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-maps-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
