[Geoserver-users] Get Labels only from geoserver

How can i retrieve labels only for a layer instead getting the graphics.

An use case would be

  • would like to do a WFS request to get the vector layers and then
  • would like to do either WMS/WFS to be able to get the Labels for them (if
    WFS needs to send label coordinates which would be center of the feature)

is this possible?

I have tried labeling through frontend using HTML DIV’s this becomes an
performance issue when you have lot of labels and needs to hide labels if
they overlap with each other.

Since geoserver handles label overlapping - was wondering how to get the
labels only

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Murad Jamal <muradjamal@anonymised.com> wrote:

How can i retrieve labels only for a layer instead getting the graphics.

An use case would be

- would like to do a WFS request to get the vector layers and then
- would like to do either WMS/WFS to be able to get the Labels for them (if
WFS needs to send label coordinates which would be center of the feature)

is this possible?

I have tried labeling through frontend using HTML DIV's this becomes an
performance issue when you have lot of labels and needs to hide labels if
they overlap with each other.

Since geoserver handles label overlapping - was wondering how to get the
labels only

You should be able to, just make a SLD style that has only the
TextSymbolizer

Cheers
Andrea

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