On Thursday 23 July 2009 11:09:32 Shaun McDonald wrote: > On 23 Jul 2009, at 09:17, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 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.
TopOSM is rendering multiple layers (most of them with Mapnik) and combines them with ImageMagick. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TopOSM -- m.v.g., Cartinus _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
