[josm-dev] How to override default styling of name=* within josm

[Paul Hartmann]

On 07/27/2013 10:41 PM, william skora wrote:
> I'm wondering where are the default style settings stored for josm. Using
> all of the map paint styles filter on the right-hand side of the screen,
> I've turned off all of my map styling, including josm's internal style.
>
> I ask because I'm trying to style so that name=* tag on a node does not
> display below zoom level 15.
> I don't have anything in my mapcss file to specify that I want the name to
> render at this zoom level.  -
> https://github.com/skorasaurus/HDM-JOSM-style/blob/8b635ecdc95d58ff193aa0ece23299bcc18dc38a/HDM.mapcss
>
> Following, the syntax described at
> https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Help/Styles/MapCSSImplementation#ZoomselectorI
> thought about styling it as
> https://github.com/skorasaurus/HDM-JOSM-style/blob/8b635ecdc95d58ff193aa0ece23299bcc18dc38a/HDM.mapcss#L631
>
> but received the following error in the console:
> org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.mappaint.mapcss.parsergen.ParseException:
> Encountered " "-" "- "" at line 631, column 11.
> Was expecting one of:
>      <S> ...
>      ">" ...
>      "<" ...
>      "," ...
>      "/*" ...

It is not "|z-15-" but "|z15-" or "|z-15".

> Is there a preferred way to style what I'm intending to do ?

To suppress the label, you could also write something like:

text: eval("");

Paul