On Jul 7, 2009, at 11:37 PM, Chris Mcnally wrote: > We should not have to pan so far to > see major street names. The type of highway is primary. > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=40.68413&lon=-73.95014&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF > > I would like to know what to do to fix this and make the map more > usable.
Well, so, that layer is "Mapnik". Its rendering is controlled by a "style file". At each zoom level there are a set of conditions which determine what gets drawn, what gets labelled, how big is the label, etc. I believe that file is stored in the OpenStreetMap SVN somewhere, and is consulted periodically to render new files. Obviously you could fetch it and change it, but I don't know what political process is needed to get it into production. Yes, I agree with you that a primary road should be labelled once in each tile. -- Russ Nelson - http://community.cloudmade.com/blog - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:RussNelson [email protected] - Twitter: Russ_OSM - http://openstreetmap.org/user/RussNelson _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
