I've got situations where a side road name continues across a main road, and it looks distinctly odd (must happen all the time in grid layouts). I solved the problem by breaking the way at the main road. If a renderer wants to be clever and put the sections back together, they need to suppress the behaviour when the shared node is also shared by a higher-class highway.
In the St Petersburg example, the root of the problem is long street names. Maybe you need to render it yourself in a smaller/narrower font. Richard On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Maarten Deen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 18:41:13 +1000, Steve Bennett <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Igor Brejc <[email protected]> wrote: >>> This results in even more complicated situation and even more work to >>> maintain such data. And even if do you follow this practice, there will >>> still be huge amounts of "legacy" data which do not. >>> I think if two streets share the same name and are adjacent to each >>> other, >>> it is reasonable for renderers to assume it's the same street. >> >> Definitely. I would go so far as to say that two connected ways should >> render identically to if they were a single way, except for the actual >> differences in tags between them. That is, the mere fact of being two >> ways or a single way should make no difference to the rendering - >> that's an error. >> >> I can imagine situations where a renderer would want to repeat a >> street name, or place the street name across the gap (eg, when a >> street changes category, and hence rendering colour), to make clear >> that the two share a name, however. But that should be a deliberate >> business rule. > > The problem is that if you go to a rule "one road, name displayed once", > you will have to search for the name of the road if the road is very long. > This might not be a problem with residential roads on lower zoom levels, > but it will with e.g. motorways on higher zoom levels. > > Look example [1]. There is no name on the motorway (I've got my browser > about 1100 pix wide). > I have deliberately cut a local stream up to make the name render in more > places. > > [1] > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.37798&lon=5.95429&zoom=15&layers=B000FTF > > Regards, > Maarten > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
