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diff --git a/tests/visual_tests/styles/marker-on-line-and-avoid-edges.xml b/tests/visual_tests/styles/marker-on-line-and-avoid-edges.xml
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index 000000000..e347b2913
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+++ b/tests/visual_tests/styles/marker-on-line-and-avoid-edges.xml
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+<Map>
+<Style name="line" filter-mode="first" >
+  <Rule>
+    <LineSymbolizer stroke="#000000" />
+  </Rule>
+</Style>
+<Style name="point-placement" filter-mode="first" >
+  <Rule>
+    <MarkersSymbolizer
+      allow-overlap="true"
+      file="shape://ellipse"
+      placement="line"
+      spacing="30"
+      transform="scale(4,10)"
+      fill="blue"
+      avoid-edges="true"
+      clip="false">
+    </MarkersSymbolizer>
+    <MarkersSymbolizer
+      allow-overlap="true"
+      file="shape://ellipse"
+      placement="vertex-last"
+      transform="scale(10,4)"
+      fill="red"
+      avoid-edges="true"
+      clip="false">
+    </MarkersSymbolizer>
+    <MarkersSymbolizer
+      allow-overlap="true"
+      file="shape://ellipse"
+      placement="vertex-first"
+      transform="scale(10,4)"
+      fill="red"
+      avoid-edges="true"
+      clip="false">
+    </MarkersSymbolizer>
+    <DebugSymbolizer />
+  </Rule>
+</Style>
+<Layer name="carto_tests">
+    <StyleName>line</StyleName>
+    <StyleName>point-placement</StyleName>
+    <Datasource>
+       <Parameter name="type">csv</Parameter>
+       <Parameter name="file">../data/marker-on-line.csv</Parameter>
+       <Parameter name="separator">|</Parameter>
+    </Datasource>
+  </Layer>
+</Map>
diff --git a/tests/visual_tests/test.py b/tests/visual_tests/test.py
index c199cef31..31997169e 100755
--- a/tests/visual_tests/test.py
+++ b/tests/visual_tests/test.py
@@ -272,6 +272,7 @@ files = {
     'halo-comp-op-on-satellite':{'sizes':[(450,450)]},
     'marker-whole-multi-polygon':{'sizes':[(512,512)]},
     'shield-on-line-and-avoid-edges':{'sizes':[(512,512)]},
+    'marker-on-line-and-avoid-edges':{'sizes':[(512,512)]},
     'text-typographic':{'sizes':[(512,512)]},
     'functional-expressions':{'sizes':[(256,256)], 'bbox':mapnik.Box2d(-10,-10,10,10)},
     'marker-collide':{'sizes':[(512,512)]},