Placing label on map once in TileMill?

Question

I am trying to create a basemap in tilemill. Very new to this software. When I add the label styling for the roads, it adds the name several times. Is there a way to have it only place the label on the map once?

My code

#MajorRoads{
  [STREET_NAM='NC-191']{
   text-name:[STREET_NAM];
   text-face-name:'Arial Regular';
   line-width:3;
   line-color:#606060;
  }

Answer 1

You could try the text-spacing property, which controls 'distance between repeated text labels on a line (aka. label-spacing)'. Here's a link to the CartoCSS docs:

https://github.com/mapbox/carto/blob/master/docs/latest.md#text-spacing-unsigned

You can also find some other helpful properties there for label placement, including text-placement and text-min-path-length.