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nauti
nauti

Reputation: 1436

No repeat for text-labels on line?

I am using 

"symbol-placement": "line",

to add text labels over polygons (countries) using a precalculated line which spans the country bounds. However, the text label automatically repeats itself which does not look good.

Example: Instead of a curved GERMANY, I get a curved unwanted repetition GERMANY GERMANY GERMANY GERMANY.

I could not find any option for that... Is there a work around?

Bonus question: Is it possible to have the text span the full line and have the font-size dynamically set accordingly? That would be the perfect solution.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2015

Answers (1)

Steve Bennett
Steve Bennett

Reputation: 126355

Setting symbol-spacing to a very high number (eg, 5000) should effectively achieve what you want.

Bonus question: Is it possible to have the text span the full line and have the font-size dynamically set accordingly?

No. But you could set the length of the line as a property on the feature, and use data-driven styling to set the font size from that. Data-driven styling for font-sizes is supported in Mapbox-GL-JS as of version 0.35.

You could potentially also use text-letter-spacing. That one doesnt' supoprt data-driven styling, but you could use filters to set some basic classes of letter spacing.

Upvotes: 1

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