[Talk-ca] Rendering Island names in OSM
In OSM, there is a clear rule to render cities depending on there size (ie. cities, town, village, etc). But I see nothing for Islands. It seems that it is thought for small islands only. Here is the example of a long island that cannot be identified properly. The Anticosti Island is 250km long. I place a Place=Island tag at the center of the island. You can see it at zoom level 12 and higher. See how it is rendered comparatively to the size of the island. zoom=12, we see the Island name http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.5&lon=-63&zoom=12&layers=M zoom=10, we see the Island in is entirety, but no name http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.5&lon=-63&zoom=11&layers=M Is there any solution to render properly in OSM? PierreB ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
Re: [Talk-ca] Rendering Island names in OSM
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Pierre Beland wrote: > In OSM, there is a clear rule to render cities depending on there size (ie. > cities, town, village, etc). But I see nothing for Islands. It seems that > it is thought for small islands only. > > Here is the example of a long island that cannot be identified properly. The > Anticosti Island is 250km long. I place a Place=Island tag at the center of > the island. You can see it at zoom level 12 and higher. See how it is > rendered comparatively to the size of the island. > > zoom=12, we see the Island name > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.5&lon=-63&zoom=12&layers=M > zoom=10, we see the Island in is entirety, but no name > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.5&lon=-63&zoom=11&layers=M > > Is there any solution to render properly in OSM? Dear Pierre, You can make suggestions for changes to the existing rendering styles. And you can make your own rendering style for your own use. http://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/1107/can-i-influence-what-gets-rendered-in-the-main-mapnik-layer ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
Re: [Talk-ca] Rendering Island names in OSM
Richard Weait wrote > Dear Pierre, > You can make suggestions for changes to the existing rendering styles. > And you can make your own rendering style for your own use. > http://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/1107/can-i-influence-what-gets-rendered-in-the-main-mapnik-layer Richard, This is more general than how I would like to render my individual map. I think that it refers to the general tagging schema of Openstreetmap for entities such as island and lakes. If you look at Liberty island in the port of New-York. You see that, with Mapnik, the name of the island is well rendered at zoom level 13. The name is ever bigger than the island. For the Great Lakes, also, we cannot see the names on the OSM maps. Thats bring more questions. Are they any tags that could permit a certain hierarchisation for rendering of entities like we have for city names? Is this non representation of entities like Great Lakes or important island is a choice that have been clearly expressed in the Openstreetmap community? If not, in wich instance, should we discuss about that? PierreB ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
