On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Phil! Gold <phi...@pobox.com> wrote:
> I tend to think of label nodes as hints for the renderer that provide it > with information it cannot derive on its own. The canonical example, I > think, is a town where it makes sense to place the label over the "town > center", which residents of the place can usually identify easily, but > which may not necessarily match the geometric center (or centroid) of the > town's border. +1 And a trickier example: a camp complex with four buildings, all with a name=. At lower zoom levels which building's name should show? The rendering needs a hint to know what "name=Camp Office" is of broader interest than "name=Maintenance Shed".
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