labelgun

Labelgun is a mapping library agnostic labelling engine. It allows you to avoid cluttering in mapping popups and labels, providing precedence to labels of your choice.
The library makes three assumptions:

• Each label has a bounding rectangle (Min X, Min Y, Max X, Max Y)
• Each label has a weight
• You can provide a function that will hide and show a label (e.g. through CSS class or JavaScript function)

Using Labelgun

Use

You can use labelgun in your project via npm such as:
npm install labelgun --save
Or if you're using yarn:
yarn add labelgun
You can also use a auto-generated CDN thanks to unpkg :
https://unpkg.com/labelgun@6.0.0/lib/labelgun.js

Docs and Demos

Check out the docs and demos live here
A nice interactive way to play with the demos locally is to use a hot reloading web server such as live-server:
npm install -g live-server
live-server

Develop

Building

We can install all the required dependencies using node and npm:
npm install
Labelgun is transpiled from ES6 using babel presets for Webpack 2. You can build the source using:
npm run build
or:
npm run build-prod
For the minified version. You can also watch the file with:
npm run watch

Tests

Labelgun uses Jasmine for testing. You can do an npm install and then use:
npm run test
at the command line. Tests are found in the spec folder. We can also run test coverage as so:
npm run coverage

GitHub Pages & NPM

GitHub pages documentation deployment:
npm deploy-doc
NPM updating:
npm publish

Users

• Vroom - Vehicle routing optimisation software
• OL Mapbox Style - Use Mapbox Style objects with OpenLayers
• qgis2web - A QGIS plugin to export a map to an OpenLayers/Leaflet webmap

Using Labelgun? Open a pull request and let us know!

Acknowledgements

Labelgun as an open source project was made possible thanks to Podaris.

License

MIT