Hello, Le Thu, 31 May 2012 01:59:18 +0200, Hermann Kraus <[email protected]> a écrit :
> I'd like to introduce my summer of code project "Improving support for > non-latin languages in mapnik" > > A complete description and a process report are available at > http://mapnik.org/news/2012/05/29/gsoc2012/ > > I'm still looking for test cases. So if you know a place where > rendering goes wrong please inform me. I haven't looked in details, but I guess many of the maps generated by MapOSMatic (http://www.maposmatic.org) for Arabic contraries and Hebrew-speaking countries are probably affected by this problem. For the street index part of MapOSMatic, we are using the Pango library to do this kind of work, and it normally handles all the "problems" that you can face with RTL languages, and also things like ligatures in Arabic. Wouldn't it be possible to leverage Pango rather than reinventing the same (rather complicated) logic? Though not related to non-latin languages support, we would also like to see wrapping being used to render texts along lines, and not only texts rendered around a point. Our major complaint in MapOSMatic right now is the fact that when a street is too small, its name is not printed. Being able to wrap street names, or even turn them into a point text nearby the street would definitely be nice. See for example http://bentobako.org/tmp/annotated-map.png which highlights those two cases (from a map not rendered with Mapnik). We will anyway definitely be testing newer versions of Mapnik that improve the text rendering. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni http://thomas.enix.org MapOSMatic http://www.maposmatic.org Logiciels Libres à Toulouse http://www.toulibre.org Embedded Linux http://www.free-electrons.com _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
