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<div style="16px" text-align="left">osmarender:nameDirection=* is an old tag that is case of tagging for the renderer. <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Additionally, Osmarender is defunct anyway.<br><br>I propose to purge this tag from database as useless, confusing and encouraging </div><div style="16px" text-align="left">tagging for renderer. <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">This edit would remove about 2000 osmarender:nameDirection=* tags worldwide,<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">with most of them in Germany and England.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">osmarender:nameDirection is described on OSM Wiki as <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">"By default Osmarender will draw street names left-to-right along ways. <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">It uses the longitude (horizontal position) of the start and end points of the <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">way to determine the direction.<br><br>In some cases, for example, very winding roads, the automatically chosen </div><div style="16px" text-align="left">name direction is not ideal. In this case the way can be tagged with <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">osmarender:nameDirection=-1 or osmarender:nameDirection=1 as a <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">hint to tell Osmarender which way to draw the name. "<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Automated edit page:<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Mateusz_Konieczny_-_bot_account/elimination_of_osmarender:nameDirection_-_blatant_tagging_for_the_renderer<br></div> </body>
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