It looks as if this is veering (shooting!) off into a related but different topic - interesting but not really answering my question, which is basically: "Is there a 'city label' bug in the Mapnik slippy map on the OSM site?"!
Frederick suggests that the Fukuoka city label may not have been rendered at level 10 because of a clash with the airport symbol, but that wouldn't explain why the city label never appears in any level above 10 (when there shouldn't be anything else overlapping). The same problem is more clearly shown if you zoom into the Maebaru city node (because the only things mapped there are the railway line and the city node). If I zoom really close in on the Maebaru city node, the label disappears, even though there's nothing else near it. Zoom 13: The Maebaru city node is rendered, the Maebaru railway station is not (that is what you would expect). http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/?mt0=mapnik&mt1=googlemap&lon=130.20308&lat=33.55773&zoom=13 Zoom 15: The city node disappears, the station node appears. It really doesn't look as if the city node label would overlap with the station node label (if it had been drawn) there looks to be loads of space between them. There would only be an overlap with the station label if the text for the city label was about 8cm high on the screen!) http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/?mt0=mapnik&mt1=googlemap&lon=130.20308&lat=33.55773&zoom=15 Looking at it again directly on the OSM site slippy map, I see the same thing happening, plus the map, encompassing the Maebaru city and station nodes, is completely blank in level 17 and 18 - that can't be correct can it?! But I suspect that the blank map is a different problem to the city label one. One logical explanation for the labels disappearing could be if the OSM Mapnik is a) Using a different database to render the city labels at lower zoom numbers, and b) failing to render the city labels at all from the OSM database at the higher zoom levels. Is that what the OSM Mapnik configuration does? It's unclear to me to me how to get this question direct to the people who configure the OSM Mapnik slippy map layer - Should I just enter it as a bug into the bug report area on the mapnik.org site? I took a look at the existing bugs thre and they seem to be about "Mapnik", not "the Mapnik-created slippy map on the OSM site".Does anyone know how to report such things? Cheers, Woll _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
