[OSM-newbies] Upside-down street names

[David Groom]

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  From: J. Oates 
  To: Newbies at openstreetmap.org 
  Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 4:11 PM
  Subject: [OSM-newbies] Upside-down street names


  I notice that when I generate an svg file with xmlstarlet and osmarender, some of the street names are rendered upside down. I assume that this is a result of right-to-left ways when editing on josm. This does not appear to be a problem with osm/osmarender online. 

  Is there a convention about direction of ways - ie should east-west ways be directional left-to-right (except for oneway streets obviously)? Similarly should north-south ways be bottom-to-top or top-to-bottom? I haven't come across mention of this in the wiki. 

  Is there a convention about cul-de-sacs ie direction of way towards or away from the closed end?

  Jon



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In general it is best to draw the segments left to right (east to west).  If this is nor possible (perhaps because it is a one way street) then use the tag and key  nameDirection=-1  (see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Osmarender/Tips ).

The online tiles at home files have some pre-processing done on them to help name rendering which is why this issue mo longer arises with the online tiles.

David

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