Thanks again. I don't think MapServer will work for me, but thanks for your help.
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Gregor at HostGIS <[email protected]> wrote: >> I was using TileCache, but I switched it off to debug this problem. If >> TileCache generates larger tiles, will there still be clipped labels? >> Just fewer clipped labels? I don't think this is a workable solution >> for me, but if I have the time I'll try it. > > Correct; there would be FEWER labels clipped (if you force them and allow > partials) or missing (if you disallow partials). > > How many fewer, depends on how large you make your meta-tiles. If they're > 5x5, that's a significant reduction in the number of tile edges. If you > really turn up your MAXSIZE in your mapfile, you could potentially make > 10x10 meta-tiles; that's 1% as many tile edges. > > You could also make your tiles larger. If you have 512x512 tiles, and 10x10 > meta-tiles, that's a HUGE reduction in the number of tile edges over single > 256x256 tiles. > > The only method I know that would eliminate ALL tile-edge artifacts, would > be to eliminate tiling, e.g. singleTile:true in OpenLayers. Not that that's > a great solution either, but it is sometimes the only way. > > -- > HostGIS, Open Source solutions for the global GIS community > Greg Allensworth - SysAdmin, Programmer, GIS Person, Security > Network+ Server+ A+ Security+ Linux+ > PHP PostgreSQL MySQL DHTML/JavaScript/AJAX > > "No one cares if you can back up — only if you can recover." > _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
