[OSM-newbies] Limiting labels using vector in Google Earth

[Charlotte Wolter]

Kris,

         For those of us who are not techies, this is all Greek.
         I think this kind of question belongs on the JOSM list or 
something equally advanced.

Charlotte Wolter


At 12:44 PM 7/20/2013, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I selected a vector only data approach to viewing OSM data from 
>geoserver in Google Earth.  It is pretty simple:
>
>A Geoserver OSM layer (line or polygon) is served via WMS, in vector 
>form, to Google Earth.  For my label styling I am using the 
>property: name.  It seems that with KML/Google-Earth, if the feature 
>doesn't have a name attribute, Google Earth displays the Geoserver 
>layer name and a feature ID in its place.
>
>This is rather annoying to look at and I just assume the feature 
>have no label at all.  I seem to be able to achieve this with 
>raster, but not when Google Earth is rendering the data for me.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>
>Also, I'm trying to figure out how to display labels where if the 
>attribute:name doesn't exist, the styling falls back on 
>attribute:ref and if it doesn't exist, display nothing.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Kris
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