[OSM-dev] Multilingual Maps Overlays

[Peter Körner]

Lennard schrieb:
>> This seems like the most logical thing to do, although I'm curious how
>> much things would overlap since mapnik wouldn't know which language
>> layer is being shown to move things around a bit.
> 
> Mapnik doesn't move things around to fit.
> 
> And quite a lot of overlap, actually. The text overlay places text where
> it sees fit, without taking any of the base map symbols/positioning into
> account.

Maybe I should just keep all the geometry objects and just set opacity=0 
on them.

I'll give it a try this evening. In the meantime - do you have a link 
where you see this problem, so I can test with it?

Peter