How to solve Geoserver Labeling issue

Question

In google map all the labels are rendering well and there are none missing. In my map some times only the point marker is showing and the label is not displaying.

I am asking about "Auto align and AUTO OFFSET" OPTION in geoserver like mapserver.

In this image all the labels are shown in different offset.

What do I have to change in my SLD?

Answer 1

To render label with auto rotation in geoserver, you will have to use the optional element in your SLD definition:

<Rotation>
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</Rotation>

In case you want to use attribute value, you can even use PropertyName tag within Rotation tag.

<Rotation>
    <ogc:PropertyName>rotation_field</ogc:PropertyName>
</Rotation>

Since your image is not uploaded properly, I assume your labels are sometimes not visible because of conflictResolution porperty in your SLD definition. You can check out using :

<VendorOption name="conflictResolution">false</VendorOption>

This will force all labels to be drawn even if they overlap each other.

Answer 2

http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/styling/sld-cookbook/index.html . See the links on the left of the page for even more detailed information is there.

Answer 3

You are probably looking for the maxDisplacement vendor option: http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/styling/sld-reference/labeling.html#maxdisplacement

Also have a look at the other options, autoWrap also increases quite a bit the look of a map with long labels