On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Volker Schmidt <vosc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> At the risk that this is mapping for the renderer, but what > Wolfgang proposes is exactly how it is done on traditional paper maps. It > gives you the possibility to label some loosely defined entity, by creating > some labelling along a non visible way. However, there is a serious > complication in this, which consists in the fact that you would have to > assign some kind of "importance" to the label to allow the renderer to > decide at which zoom levels to show the labelling and with what kind of > visibility. > A traditional paper mapper makes visibility decisions, which automated agents have more trouble with. For example: imagine three ridges, all named, all about the same length. Which should show at low zoom? A cartographer might know that the local residents refer to the third ridge most often, and that it is somehow more important. An automated agent could try: but the data is likely outside of OSM. Should it google for the name and count the hits? Send an email to nearby mappers? --- Some manual tweaking of the "importance" has wide applicability in OSM, despite the obvious disagreements on the exact rankings/
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