Hi Philip, There is no easy way.
See http://trac.mapnik.org/ticket/13 and a potential solution at comment #11 (http://trac.mapnik.org/ticket/13#comment:11). I didn't provide much detail so feel free to follow up with questions. In general, if it is possible to merge adjacent lines to create longer lines for labeling, then that is a nice solution. If that is not possible in your case, then I figure that truly calls for some way of placing text longer than lines, which is not supported. Dane On Dec 3, 2009, at 7:03 AM, Philip Stubbs wrote: > Hi All, > > Is there an easy way to force Mapnik to turn on street name rendering > even when the road is too short? > > I want to generate a number of small maps for printing. However, I > need every road to be named, but by default, when the road is short > the name is omitted. For my situation, it would be better to have a > name hanging over the ends of the road. I have been looking through > the osm.xml file, but could do with a pointer as to what to look for > and change. > > Thank you very much. > -- > Philip Stubbs > _______________________________________________ > 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
