Hello Dave, Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 5:03:44 PM, you wrote: DS> It renders meta tiles -- that's 8x8 normal tiles. This reduces the DS> border overlap overhead.
Sounds good. >> And, is it really impossible to avoid cropping at all? Can't Mapnik be >> instructed (or extended) to render labels always at the same place, no >> matter the viewport? DS> The problem is label collisions. Labels cause other labels to move or DS> not be displayed. When you add/remove data you change the flow. Tile DS> overlaps help quite a lot but there are issues still. The problem is clear to me, but there must be some method to create some rules that would produce nice (and repeating, for long roads) labels on a hypothetical extremely large map. I mean labelling rules that do not depend on the current viewport. DS> It could easily render everything in the same place, but that wouldn't DS> lead to a very nice map. As long as collisions would still be avoided, why not? Udo _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
