The issue is much more commonplace. It is only to avoid clutter on very short segments of streets. However, it seems to work out fine when I zoom out.<br>Thanks for your replies.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/8/17 James Ewen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ve6srv@gmail.com" target="_blank">ve6srv@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Canvec has roads chopped up into little bitty pieces between every<br>
intersection. That's probably the issue. Mapnik tags every segment if<br>
it can.<br>
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James<br>
VE6SRV<br>
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On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Richard Welty <<a href="mailto:rwelty@averillpark.net">rwelty@averillpark.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 8/17/12 8:51 AM, Gilles Pelletier wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> I find that putting street names between every street corner along its<br>
>> length clutters the map.<br>
>> What are your conventions?<br>
>><br>
> what's the context for this question? normally the ways representing streets<br>
> get broken up only where there is a change in tagging, e.g. oneway vs<br>
> twoway,<br>
> change in maxspeed, maxweight, addition/change/removal of a ref tag,<br>
> etc.<br>
><br>
> richard<br>
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