On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Andy Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Interesting issue. The techy in me thinks that tagging the island (tag > the way) rather than a point may help, since that allows data > consumers (e.g. renderers) to calculate the size of the island (and > even, perhaps in future, the longest diagonal to write the name at an > angle). Defaulting to putting the name in the middle of the polygon is > easy and done already with buildings. We have a similar area-based > thing with way_area in mapnik rendering rules already. > Yeah, the unfortunate thing here is that this import probably brought in a few hundred to a few thousand of these place=island POIs, and I would hazard a guess that a large (huge?) portion of them don't have the physical island boundaries mapped (since a lot of them are so tiny). -Ted
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