Hey, OpenLayers does not do any label collision management. If you want nice labels, you might want to consider rendering your data on a server (WMS, e.g. GeoServer or MapServer).
Andreas. On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Nathan Wiebe <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, I've got a project using OpenLayers that shows units driving around to > various locations on a map. These I'm using 5 different > OpenLayers.Layer.Vector layers from GeoRSS feeds to display different kinds > of units. The base layer of the map is static prerendered tiles. I'm > having trouble with the labels for the units and location overlapping making > things unreadable. I've tried placing for one type of unit above the > marker, and placing labels for other types of units below the marker, but > the labels end up overlapping anyway as the units move around. > > Is there any kind of label collision avoidance I can convince OL to do for > me? Any other easy solutions? > > -- > Nathan Wiebe > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-users > -- Andreas Hocevar OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/ Expert service straight from the developers. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-users
