How to know the coordinates of a rendered road label
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Description
Hi, I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to know the exact coordinates of a rendered road label.
By calling `queryRenderedFeatures` and filtering only by labels, I am able to get all the features matching to the rendered road labels, but when accessing a feature's coordinates (.geometry.coordinates) I get an array of arrays, not just a single set of coordinates. This array appears to contain all the possible coordinates that a certain label might be rendered at by mapbox (I guess depending on collision, zoom, etc), but I can't figure out a way to know with certainty which set of coordinates in the `coordinates` array is the correct one for the label that mapbox has actually rendered.
For example, if a label can be placed in 3 different coordinate sets, we know which these are, but we don't know which set is actually being used.
Is there a way to find out?
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Research direction
Start with the queryRenderedFeatures entry point and inspect how filtered road-label features expose feature.geometry.coordinates. Determine whether the rendered placement is available through the current API or rendering state. Done means providing a supported way to identify the active label coordinates, or clearly documenting that the API cannot expose them.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- computer-graphics, frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
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- 5/5
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- Over a week
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- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100