Mamata Akella

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one example is counties in the Great Lakes ![screen shot 2017-12-18 at 11 10 35 am](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1566273/34123435-5e616308-e3e4-11e7-9952-cbb8a9f48dd7.png)

More examples of duplicates (blue) and also cut off labels (orange) uh oh! ![screen shot 2016-08-09 at 12 02 57 pm](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1566273/17527624/545633ee-5e29-11e6-83cf-4a5316a9b68e.png)

I was also thinking for the cut off labels (orange above) we might try increasing the `Map {buffer-size:..}` cc @saleiva

yeah i thought we could try `text-avoid-edges` but without testing more, i'm worried to do that. I thought an easy fix for the cut off (not duplicate) would be to...

I thought the same but I don't see place polygons... in the basemap files. Unless I've totally missed them? I didn't even know that place polygons were part of OSM?

That labeling behavior is classic of polygons...

And I've used `text-avoid-edges: true` in conjunction with other labeling properties in the past and it doesn't completely eliminate the label from my experience but does to some degree help...

we can't use text-repeat-distance.... what is another alternative?

text-min-distance maybe? i'll try