On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 09:37:15PM +1000, John Smith wrote: > 2010/1/2 Pieren <[email protected]>: > > Look here: > > > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.6238&lon=7.8259&zoom=14&layers=B000FTF > > > > Mapnik is showing a "Germany" label in Strasbourg which is, as far as > > I know, still part of France ;-) > > > > It's not a node, so my guess is that label is coming from a huge > > polygon but, stilll, I don't know what can be a polygon named > > "Germany" and its centre is so far in the west... > > Does anyone know of a good reason for the names of polygons to render? > > Most of the time, there is a place node for where things should > render, otherwise you get the names of postcodes and names rendering > in the middle of no where.
Isnt it the natural thing to do? Lakes have names, forrests sometimes have and at least in Germany industrial areas have usually names which should be shown on the map. Flo -- Florian Lohoff [email protected] "Es ist ein grobes Missverständnis und eine Fehlwahrnehmung, dem Staat im Internet Zensur- und Überwachungsabsichten zu unterstellen." - - Bundesminister Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble -- 10. Juli in Berlin
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