Place markers about foss4g-benchmark-style HOT 4 CLOSED

can we use a shieldsymbolizer with text-dy or dx for this, or just a point symbolizer and textsymbolizer (and some will be lost)? Getting some points is better than drawing none to ensure the most possible consistency with the mapserver output.

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I like the shield route, since mapserver is always drawing points. How important is the text-label-position-tolerance - should we get a shield-label-position-tolerance as well?

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label-position-tolerance I don't think is important. It came up in relation to text along lines (LINE_PLACEMENT) in the sense that it was expensive and needed to be turned off by setting to zero. If the look is not right you could also try a point symbolizer plus text-symbolizer along with placement-type="simple" for allowing multiple fallbacks: https://github.com/mapnik/reference.json/commit/abbcc6aca8bd5c25a310365f2d8feed21d14786e. This is the bit Herm got working in trunk BEFORE GSOC, and it has been made better and more flexible in his branch.

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this I'm pretty sure is done and can be closed.

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