For posterity and in case anyone else has a problem, this was a bug of JOSM specifically - https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/8934 and has been fixed as of version 6122, thank you to AlfonZ who wrote the patch.
You can see a simple implementation of it here at: https://github.com/hotosm/HDM-JOSM-style/commit/624613f4579a65a95e92cfc922d843a001c25316 Regards, Will On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 3:45 AM, AlfonZ <alfon...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 7:12 PM, william skora wrote: > >> I'm trying to style the names (so that they have a halo around them, and >> will later on add font size based on area size),being displayed for >> various >> areas in my mapcss style using an eval expression, but the styling is not >> applying and I don't know why. >> > > I tried both approaches > prop_area_small_name:1 + is_prop_set("prop_area_small_name") > and > small_area:true + eval(prop(small_area)) > and they both worked, styling was applied. You can check it via Advanced > info (Ctrl+I, map style tab), or visually by setting some property to an > extreme, e.g. font-size:200. > What didn't work was drawing the text within area with halo. For that I'd > suggest submitting new ticket at http://josm.openstreetmap.de/newticket . > > AlfonZ > > _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
