Solutions for Limitations in Label Placement in OGC Symbology Encoding (SE) Specification

We are currently witnessing a rapid development of automated cartography through the web mapping technologies. And one of the most important aspects of this cartography is a map labeling. Most modern platforms that can publish spatial data to the web use international standards provided by Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). Among the other specifications these standards have specific parameters for map labeling. As the current specifications allow only basic parameters to control label placement process, we hereby propose an extension to an international standard provided by OGC that is called Symbology Encoding (SE). The objective of this work is to extend the existing label placement types as well as to describe new ones. This extension was implemented within a new web mapping platform (http://OpenMapSurfer.unihd.de) that is based on several OGC specifications.