Jiri Drbalek

Those labels are cut on tile's border. There can be more reasons for that. It looks like `clip="true"` is set on the symbolizer in this case.

> Where is this clip="true" option so that I can change it ? `clip` is a property of shield symbolizer, [see the reference](http://mapnik.org/mapnik-reference/#3.0.6/shield-clip). But it was just an idea based...

There is no such option as ```xml auto ``` The `band` parameter needs to be an integer - band number. It should give some sensible error however. My only idea...

Thank you @winsento. I'm able to reproduce it now.

I've found and fixed the problem in https://github.com/mapycz/mapnik/commit/9a57592d7ba19686ea1a72d143fa675742a51d75. I haven't made a pull request to Mapnik yet as it needs some test coverage. @winsento, can you build it with this...

OK, I now noticed that the tiff is being reprojected "on the fly". I think I'm able to reproduce it:  Output seems fine when I reprojected the tiff...

@winsento, I hopefully figured it out finally. Please, cherry-pick additional commits from https://github.com/mapycz/mapnik/commits/fix-overviews.

> Is the recommendation to use XML in mapnik temporary for 3.x.x or at some point we can use both python/c++ and xml? You can use the C++ style interface...

Great, I will try to merge it to Mapnik.

@winsento, fine, looking forward! It would be also great reward if you can offer that tiff file as a test case for Mapnik. In much smaller resolution or a part...