[OSM-newbies] Labelling Dual-Carriageways Correctly

[Andy Allan]

On Jan 5, 2008 12:33 AM, David Legg <david.legg at searchevent.co.uk> wrote:
> Is there a right way to get dual-carriageway labels to render correctly?
>
> If you look at this part of Bracknell [1] I see badly overlaid labels
> for the A329 and A3095 when viewing the Osmarender version but not the
> Mapnik version.  Is that simply because the Mapnik renderer is just
> smarter when it comes to placing labels or that the raw data should have
> been laid out better in some way?

The former is (in my opinion) the more accurate - the data is
correctly following our conventions, but Osmarender isn't very
effective when it comes to preventing overlapping text, whereas mapnik
can handle it fairly well. I'm confident the osmarender developers
will be able to handle this better in future, since I haven't found
anything else they can't work out a clever solution for!

Cheers,
Andy