I couldn't agree more. Cardinal text label positioning around a point is something that would come in handy immediately.
Vladimir, could you provide patches to Mapnik trac with with either these raw changes or diffs? (whatever is easiest for you) Also, I've taken at stab at the fractional halos: http://trac.mapnik.org/ticket/93 Dane On Apr 11, 2009, at 11:21 AM, Michal Migurski wrote: > It would be incredibly helpful to get that back into the Mapnik > mainline - I think text positioning is currently the weakest point in > Mapnik. > > The map render on Kosmosnimki is stunning, gorgeous! It was one of the > first things that drew me to Mapnik. > > -mike. > > On Apr 10, 2009, at 11:52 AM, Vladimir Slepnev wrote: > >>> Is one of the tweaks you've made to support thinner(fractional) >>> halo widths? >> >> No. We do need fractional halo, but didn't consider it top priority. >> The #1 most visible tweak was placing labels at different positions >> around points: we added a "positions" sattribute to TextSymbolizer, >> with values like "s,n,e,se,ne,w" that would get tried in that order >> for every label to be placed. >> >> Vladimir >> _______________________________________________ >> Mapnik-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > michal migurski- [email protected] > 415.558.1610 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
