It would be incredibly helpful to get that back into the Mapnik mainline - I think text positioning is currently the weakest point in Mapnik.
The map render on Kosmosnimki is stunning, gorgeous! It was one of the first things that drew me to Mapnik. -mike. On Apr 10, 2009, at 11:52 AM, Vladimir Slepnev wrote: >> Is one of the tweaks you've made to support thinner(fractional) >> halo widths? > > No. We do need fractional halo, but didn't consider it top priority. > The #1 most visible tweak was placing labels at different positions > around points: we added a "positions" sattribute to TextSymbolizer, > with values like "s,n,e,se,ne,w" that would get tried in that order > for every label to be placed. > > Vladimir > _______________________________________________ > Mapnik-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users > ---------------------------------------------------------------- michal migurski- [email protected] 415.558.1610 _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
