A compromise on this approach would be to have one layer with all the labels for all the layers as Mathew wrote, but to not cache that layer so that you could always show only labels for the layers that are displayed. I am not exactly sure in kamap how this could be implemented, but this would give you the speedy cachey goodness for the basemaps and then it would just take a bit for the labels to show up.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/10/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kevin Okamoto</b> <<a href="mailto:kevino@migcom.com">kevino@migcom.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
That's not a bad idea; however, I think having a separate label layer<br>wouldn't<br>go over well with our clients. Disassociating the labels with their features<br>might be more confusing and inconvenient.<br><br>
Thanks for the suggestion anyway.<br><br>-Kevin<br><br>Matthew Perry wrote:<br>> On 5/7/07, Kevin Okamoto <<a href="mailto:kevino@migcom.com">kevino@migcom.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> Hello,<br>>><br>>> Is there a way to handle "label collision" between Ka-Map layers? In
<br>>> other words, is it possible to<br>>> render two separate map layers so that there labels don't overlap when<br>>> they are overlayed on top<br>>> of each other.<br>>><br>>> I know that Mapserver is able to manage "label collision" if the
<br>>> layers are rendered as part of the<br>>> same image/tile; however I haven't found anything that would manage<br>>> labels between two separate<br>>> map images/tiles.<br>>><br>>
<br>><br>> One technique you might consider is to create a separate group to<br>> render only the labels. You wouldn't be able to toggle each layer's<br>> labels individually but at least the features can be toggled and their
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