Robin Paulson >Sent: 20 December 2007 9:25 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Render icons for parking areas > >On 20/12/2007, Knut Arne Bjørndal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Robin Paulson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On 19/12/2007, Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > i am confident the maths to figure out where to place the label, >> >> > whilst ensuring it is inside the bounds of the area (and complying >> >> > with any other set of arbitrary rules), would be fairly trivial to >> >> > implement. >........ >> >> Sounds really good, I've been thinking a good bit about how to solve this >problem lately, without really having much luck. >> >> If you can come up with the algorithm and need help implementing it, just >give me a holler and I'll have a look at it. >> > >i came up with a few ideas last night, all needing some work to >complete them, but then jon burgess said earlier in this thread that >it was already done in mapnik. is osmarender a completely different >system, or is there some other good reason that method can't be used >here? > >thanks for the offer of help, i will put some ideas up here as soon as >they are in a more friendly form >
Osmarender takes basic OSM XML and converts it to SVG using XSLT and XSLT does not have a nice set of mathematical functions to play with. Cheers Andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
