On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Pierre-Luc Beaudoin<pierre-...@pierlux.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 14:18 +0200, Lennard wrote: >> Mapnik doesn't even _get_ to see the geobase:* tags, and even if it >> had access to them, wouldn't do anything with those. It only repeats >> the labels and signs because these *are* actually separate ways, both >> in the OSM database, as in the PostGIS database that mapnik queries. > > Oh! Thanks for the enlightenment. Can't we improve it then to not > render repeated signs for prettier map output? See the 360 on this map > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=47.1061&lon=-70.8097&zoom=12&layers=B000FTF
Mapnik already supports this for highway shields with the min_distance parameter. <ShieldSymbolizer name="ref" face_name="DejaVu Sans Bold" size="11" fill="#809bc0" placement="line" file= "/home/username/mapnik/symbols/motorway_shield1.png" type="png" width="17" height="17" min_distance="120"/> _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
