Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik street name positioning

2008-05-30 Thread Andrew Chadwick (email lists)
Tom Chance wrote: On Thursday 29 May 2008 17:43:11 David Earl wrote: Quite often streets change their names along their length. But the caption placement seems to put the names in the middle of a way. I wonder if it would be useful instead to put the name at either end of the way (unless it

[OSM-talk] Mapnik street name positioning

2008-05-29 Thread David Earl
One more thing about Mapnik rendering, then I'll stop! Quite often streets change their names along their length. But the caption placement seems to put the names in the middle of a way. I wonder if it would be useful instead to put the name at either end of the way (unless it won't fit, in