On 9 Oct 2008, at 11:48, spillocaster wrote: > > I also have problems with placing my labels in the correct way. > > I understand the function of the painter model, but I don't get the > desired > result. I want a simple map with labeled streets and city names on > top of > it. But some city names are missing. I first draw the street layer > as lines > without labeling, the next layer is the city names pointlayer without > styling of the geometry, only labels. Then I load again the street > layer > with a style only for the labels. According to the painters model, the > streetnames should have a lower prority as the city names, because > they are > drawn last. But this isn't true. Some city names are missing. Does > MapNik > load the geometry in a cache?
Nope. > In this case the streetnames are having a > higher priority although they are drawn last. > > Only when I load the city names layer as the first layer, all cities > are > labeled and some street names are not. Then the labeling is correct, > but the > map looks horrible, because the street vectors are laying above my > city > names. > You shouldn't have to do this. Can you post your *.xml (or Python) and resulting map so we can investigate further. > I decided to load the pointlayer with the city names as the first > layer with > a transparent point style. I wanted to give him a higher priority, > because > he is loaded first in the cache, but that didn't helped me. > > Is there any solution or workaround? > > I hope that I described it clearly. Please, consider subscribing to this mailing list. Cheers Artem > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Text-Rendering-Priority-tp18022102p19896448.html > Sent from the Mapnik - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > Mapnik-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users > _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
