Shaun McDonald wrote: >> Yeah it would be neat to render a captionless layer in mapnik and then >> overlay text on it. >> >> Can mapnik support that? I'd have thought adding any sort of text to >> the map might have implications for the rendering itself. >> > The problem is being able to do the text collision avoidance stuff > against non-text features, hence why it's not been done before.
Collision avoidance across layers is slightly doable, but requires a good amount of effort. This particular example isn't helped by the fact that you're dealing with variable length texts for the same feature here. -- Lennard _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
