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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Ok, that's a good step in the right
      direction.  But since I stated that I'm using mod_tile/renderd,
      how does one configure things to use that?<br>
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      I see that mod_tile's renderd.py invokes mapnik.render(), but
      without the 3rd argument which is the scale factor.  Or is there a
      new version of mod_tile that I need to pick up?  Checking further
      reveals that gen_tile..cpp invokes agg_renderer, but again without
      that optional 3rd parameter of the scale factor.<br>
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      I don't know which of these two modules is actually invoked by
      apache when tiles are requested, but since neither one does
      scale_factor, this looks like a mapnik feature that's not yet used
      by mod_tile/renderd?<br>
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      Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and
      Win32<br>
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      On 5/31/2013 12:47 PM, Dane Springmeyer wrote:<br>
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      Mapnik supports an optional `scale_factor` argument for rendering
      that enables the 2x scale up (or any variable size) without any
      modifications to your stylesheet.
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      <div>See documentation at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
          href="https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/wiki/Scale-factor">https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/wiki/Scale-factor</a></div>
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      <div>Dane</div>
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          <div>On May 31, 2013, at 8:12 AM, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)
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            <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> I'm running my own
              Tile Server (mod_tile/renderd created from packages as
              described at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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href="http://switch2osm.org/serving-tiles/building-a-tile-server-from-packages/">http://switch2osm.org/serving-tiles/building-a-tile-server-from-packages/</a>
              and would like to serve up a new set of tiles with larger
              font sizes for higher resolution displays.<br>
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              I read <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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href="https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/8467/font-size-and-adding-scale-to-map">https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/8467/font-size-and-adding-scale-to-map</a>
              which describes the textsymbolizer element in osm.xml, to
              whit:<br>
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                            <p>The font size comes from the style file <em>osm.xml</em>.
                              This includes several lines on the form "<em><code><textsymbolizer

                                  name="name" fontset_name="bold-fonts"
                                  size="11"/></code></em>". You can
                              edit the <em>size</em> parameter in the
                              wanted areas to generate a new style with
                              other font sizes.</p>
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              But there's a TON of textsymbolizer's that would need to
              be edited.  Cloudmade's tile servers support an embedded
              doubler in their tile URL as described at <a
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                href="http://developers.cloudmade.com/projects/tiles/documents">http://developers.cloudmade.com/projects/tiles/documents</a><br>
              <br>
              <blockquote type="cite">To get double resolution tiles use
                <strong>@2x</strong> suffix: 997@2x - this will improve
                map look for iPhone 4, Motorola Milestone, etc.</blockquote>
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              Does anyone know how they do that?  Is there a way to
              replace the textsymbolizer element size attributes with a
              variable (say Size11, Size8, SizeN) so that I can simply
              clone the style and edit all of the sizes in a single
              place?  Then I could do a 1.5, 2, 4, or whatever by simply
              editing the sizes where the variables are declared instead
              of every single textsymbolizer element.<br>
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              Any/all help would be appreciated to accomplish label font
              scaling in the rendering chain with minimal manual editing
              work for each scale that I support.<br>
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              Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile
              and Win32<br>
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