On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:54 AM, James Umbanhowar <jumba...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, April 03, 2012 08:17:16 AM Phil! Gold wrote: >> * Minh Nguyen <m...@1ec5.org> [2012-04-03 02:19 -0700]: >> >> > I'd prefer to see the shields strung out along the concurrency, with >> > no spacing between each shield. That would be especially helpful >> > where the concurrency's shields happen to appear near a junction. >> > Google Maps does that, but they space the shields apart somewhat. >> >> This is something that would probably look nice, but is difficult >> (possibly impossible) to do in Mapnik. I'll see what I can do and how it >> looks on the map. >> > > I don't know if they use Mapnik, but I like the way Stamen places their > shields along concurrencies. e.g. > http://maps.stamen.com/terrain/#15/39.7542/-86.0373
I don't know if it is Mapnik, but it behaves similarly. Look to the west a bit from your link. It appears that shields are not strictly ordered, so some can go missing from the display. For example, the Interstate shields are less-frequent at the link below. Zoom in another layer and the interstate shields are more-frequent, at the expense of the others. http://maps.stamen.com/terrain/#14/39.6996/-86.1647 That's cool, and it's nice that we have the choice now between not-exactly-random-linear, or all-in-one-clustered. I can imagine other options in future like: - only render the most-important shield, but have it popup with the cluster on hover - make clusters smaller, and magnify on hover - other cooler ideas that you come up with Mapnik metawriters should make this possible right now if somebody wants to write a little code to do it. :-) _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
