[OSM-dev] Mapnik : any way of controlling the frequency text is written on polylines?

[Nick Whitelegg]

>>
>> I'm trying to get heights to appear on contours, e.g. at:
>>
>> http://nick.dev.openstreetmap.org/mapnik2/100455105.png
>>
>> However, the height labelling only appears infrequently. At a guess it
>> only places text along a sufficiently straight section of line. The XML
> code is:
>>
>> <Rule>
>> <TextSymbolizer name="height" face_name="Bitstream Vera Sans Roman"
>> size="8" fill="#fb9b67" halo_radius="0" placement="line"/>
>> </Rule>
>>
>> Is there a parameter I can set to increase the frequency of text 
placement
>> along the contour lines?
>>

>There used be such parameter, but I'm not sure it's stil there:).  I'll 
have a
>look. Could I have  some small subset of your contours for testing??
>Cheers,
>-- Artem
>> Thanks,
>> Nick

Hello Artem,

The shapefiles used to generate the contours are in: 

http://nick.dev.openstreetmap.org/mapnik2/srtmshp/

The names match the generated PNG files in 
nick.dev.openstreetmap.org/mapnik2/, e.g. the above image would be from 
100455105.{shp,shx,dbf}.

Nick