[OSM-dev] Another mapnik style sheet question

[John Smith]

--- On Tue, 4/8/09, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:

> One hint - it's not perfect. I've never looked into it, but
> I've also
> never seen anything exactly aligned. I think mapnik's text
> placement
> within shields is a fraction of a pixel off so the kind of
> sub-pixel
> precision you're chasing isn't going to work. Maybe it's
> possible to
> make the images slightly shifted but again I haven't
> tried.

I'm not after sub-pixel rendering, it seems to be 2-5 pixels out, but the mapnik version I'm using seems to be buggy with respect to dx/dy params...