I have a set of layers which represent grids from street directories,
running off a postGIS database. The grids are actually represented by
polygons, not lines.

They are meant to display as WMS overlays with the grid reference centred in
the grid. However, I find that the labels repeat, appearing up to four times
in each polygon, but rather randomly, sometimes right on the line.

According to the documentation I have read, labels should be centered on the
centroid of polygons, and should not repeat by default. I have tried
checking the data to see if there are other geometry types in the table that
might be confusing the representation, but there doesn't seem to be
anything.

The only unusual thing is that the polygons are actually stored as
multipolygons. This is presumably because the data came originally from
MapInfo TAB files, which only supports the "MULTI" versions of polygons and
linestrings.

So each row has geometry like:

MULTIPOLYGON(((16390211.3882335 -5362787.10375356,16390897.8955332
-5362785.11420676,16390895.8917824 -5362096.14445555,16390209.3844827
-5362098.13385489,16390211.3882335 -5362787.10375356))).

All the same, I don't think this should affect the labels.

Can anyone explain why this is happening?

Rohan Parkes
Melbourne
Australia
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