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Labeling offset lines #437

Closed peterqliu closed 7 years ago

peterqliu commented 8 years ago

There's no good way to offset labels to track their corresponding lines, at the moment. Two obstacles:

Units (minor): line-offset is in px, while text-offset is in ems
Frame of reference (major): line-offset is relative to the line's direction, while text-offset is relative to the map or viewport. Depending on direction, the two can get offset in opposite directions:

ansis commented 8 years ago

the second issue came up here: https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/2350 I think it's something we can fix. Unfortunately text-offset doesn't work nicely with curved lines. If you add a high offset on a curved line you'll see what I mean. The characters will either bunch up or spread out. I'm not sure how fixable that problem is.

lucaswoj commented 7 years ago

This issue was moved to mapbox/mapbox-gl-js#4112