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1. marque+(OP)[view] [source] 2026-01-09 19:45:14
This is the thing I wished existed somewhere and didn’t know how to search for.

I’m a land surveyor, and another topic I’m interested in is automatic label (text) positioning around shapes, possible strategies, what works best, including design principles and how to keep it non-cluttered for the user.

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2. Frater+v3[view] [source] 2026-01-09 20:01:26
>>marque+(OP)
Hey, you've probably seen these already, but Redblobgames has a great series of posts about creating good labels for maps: https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2024-08-20-labels-on-maps/ https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2024-10-09-sdf-curved-text... (There's a few others too)
3. joules+VU[view] [source] 2026-01-10 01:38:48
>>marque+(OP)
Polylabel is pretty great

https://github.com/mapbox/polylabel

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