Hi again! I hope someone with programming skills is reading this discussion :)
>> 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. > The actual rule is: treat it as a single OSM way and then decide how often > to repeat the name for longer ways. Although Mapnik does not repeat names, it repeats ref for trunks: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=57.69949&lon=28.33726&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF (scroll it north/south) So I don't think repeating names would be a problem. The fact that Mapnik doesn't do this looks like a bug: on long streets it's sometimes hard to find a name. Try this road (Estonia, for a change): http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=59.35981&lon=24.71644&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF Cutting it just for the name to appear more often is mapping for rendeders, obviously. > 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. Well, streets sometimes are long enough to fit a name ten times. But segments are small. I don't consider this a font problem, because I'd better have one good-looking label than ten unreadable and redundant. IZ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
