<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Maarten Deen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mdeen@xs4all.nl">mdeen@xs4all.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
The problem is that if you go to a rule "one road, name displayed once",<br>
you will have to search for the name of the road if the road is very long.<br></blockquote><div><br>The actual rule is: treat it as a single OSM way and then decide how often to repeat the name for longer ways. <br> </div>
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This might not be a problem with residential roads on lower zoom levels,<br>
but it will with e.g. motorways on higher zoom levels.<br>
<br>
Look example [1]. There is no name on the motorway (I've got my browser<br>
about 1100 pix wide).<br>
I have deliberately cut a local stream up to make the name render in more<br>
places.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>It's up to the renderer to decide how often to repeat the name. Cutting up ways just to make it look better for a certain renderer (Mapnik) isn't really a good practice. And anyway, this depends on the zoom level: once you zoom into enough, you will still get ways that will be long and with one label only. And if you zoom out, you won't get _any_ labels, since the split ways will be too short to show anything.<br>
<br>Igor<br></div></div><br>