On Thursday 30 May 2013, Jakub wrote: > > PS: I beleive that this problem is much more general, it is also true > with all sorts of regions, cities and villages. Names are rendered > two or three times and is not good at all.
This is also common for islands and in some form also for seas/oceans (where there is no geometry at all except for the labeling node). The underlying reason is in part that normal rendering has to be done directly from the database in real time and this does not allow for any more expensive computations for label placement. Toby described this in more detail. Somewhat related is the problem of label placement by the renderer with overlapping labels of different type and suboptimal priorities in selection of labels. The only solution to this seems to be to introduce a preprocessing step generating the labeling information from the map data that is not done in real time and therefore can be more expensive. There is one other place where this is already done in OSM, that is the coastlines and as many are painfully aware this is not working particularly well (current coastline on osm.org is nearly four months old). Greetings, -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
