In article <41D9AF705DB0D1119E570020AF871A64D4E4@MAILSTORE>, Nik Price
<Nik@...> writes
From: Nik Price <Nik@...>
In my local area (Portsmouth), there are a few users living in close
proximity to each other. This results in the callsigns overwriting each
other, even on a map of large scale (they live within a couple of
hundred yards of each other).
Would it be possible when plotting the icon on the screen, to check to
see if the label would overwrite another station, and if so to place the
label on the other side of the icon?
In theory yes, but it would be difficult to implement. Also, when the
great day comes and you've got 100 stations on your map, there would be
an awful lot of time consuming checking of overlapping rectangles going
on every time the map refreshed.
If you regularly see these stations on your map, why not create a
special symbol for each of them, and check "Omit labels on special
symbols" in "Miscellaneous Setup"? Even if the special symbol is nothing
more than a rectangle containing the callsign, it will still take up
less room than a default symbol plus a label.
--
Roger Barker, G4IDE roger@...
Boston, UK
