Label placement. Sometimes the 'wrong' label gets precedent and one is hidden. Use spring-force placement on the labels to jiggle them until a fit is found.
Anchor a virtual spring to the lat/lng of a node with place:city, name:Foo. The other end on to the label itself. Repeat with all the floating labels (ref: tags etc). Make all the nodes electorstatically repulsive, add friction and simulate a few iterations. Play about with values for the spring constant and repulsion coefficient until you find 'nice' values. For bonus points write a GA to find the nice values for you. For all I know mapnik already does something like this. For super bonus points, do all this in XSLT. On 21 Mar 2008, at 11:23, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > I've been approached by a student of Geoinformatics who wants to > write her Master's Thesis about something OSM related. > > I suggested to look into the rendering topic: Where are our current > problems in rendering, can they be solved by simply improving the > renderer(s) or will they need additional input from mappers in the > form of "hints" or extra data, or are they maybe completely unsolvable > for computers. > > I recognize this is more a general cartography topic than an OSM > specific one, but our "crowdsourcing" powers might come in if it turns > out that there are certain areas where map rendering could be improved > dramatically if mappers did enter a few extra "hints"; nobody else > could achieve that on a global scale but us. > > I'm sure each of you must have some "pet peeve" with our map > rendering, some area you have mapped but which never looks right, some > place where you're always tempted to edit the map tile with the GIMP > before uploading it ;-) > > I'd be happy to hear from you about such "areas of bad rendering", > whether they are bugs in there renderer(s) or just things that are > ugly for some reason. > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09" > E008°23'33" > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk > have fun, SteveC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.asklater.com/steve/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
