Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik: strange prioritisation/appearance of place names

2009-03-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, 3) Zoom 10: Fukuoka disappears again! (Although it shouldn't be clashing with Maebaru at this zoom level) It likely clashed with the airport icon on this zoom level. Any ideas? Have the city nodes been added in a way that means Mapnik can't rendered them correctly? Does it need more

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik: strange prioritisation/appearance of place names

2009-03-23 Thread Elena of Valhalla
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Kærast kaer...@qvox.org wrote: We need to keep the village/town/city tags because it is important to know the official designation of a place, so what we need is a tag to designate how important the place is and therefore what zoom levels it shows on.  

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik: strange prioritisation/appearance of place names

2009-03-23 Thread Elena of Valhalla
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Adam Schreiber sa...@clemson.edu wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Elena of Valhalla elena.valha...@gmail.com wrote: finding a working algorithm that uses only objective data and is always able to select the proper item to print would be excellent, but

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik: strange prioritisation/appearance of place names

2009-03-23 Thread David Earl
On 23/03/2009 12:13, Adam Schreiber wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Elena of Valhalla elena.valha...@gmail.com wrote: finding a working algorithm that uses only objective data and is always able to select the proper item to print would be excellent, but also probably not feasible in

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik: strange prioritisation/appearance of place names

2009-03-23 Thread Andy Allan
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Adam Schreiber sa...@clemson.edu wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Elena of Valhalla elena.valha...@gmail.com wrote: finding a working algorithm that uses only objective data and is always able to select the proper item to print would be excellent, but

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik: strange prioritisation/appearance of place names

2009-03-23 Thread Brian Quinion
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:34 PM, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote: On 23/03/2009 12:13, Adam Schreiber wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Elena of Valhalla elena.valha...@gmail.com wrote: finding a working algorithm that uses only objective data and is always able to select

[OSM-talk] Mapnik: strange prioritisation/appearance of place names

2009-03-22 Thread Woll Newall
In the OSM Mapnik slippy map, the rendering of place names seems to be rather random at different zoom levels. Cities seem to appear and disappear as I zoom in, and 'large' cities don't appear but 'tiny' ones do. I can see the city nodes in the database (in Potlatch) but the rendering of