[OSM-newbies] Text rendering ...

[Dave Stubbs]

2009/1/19 Robert Helvie <alimamo at gmail.com>:
>>
>> It's just the way the map style sheet has been written. The cities are
>> set to never wrap. For towns the name will wrap if the caption gets
>> larger than 20 pixels.
>> I don't know the reason behind this styling.
>>
>> You can see the stylesheet here if you want:
>> http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/applications/rendering/mapnik/osm.xml
>> search for the [place] = 'city' part. The wrap_width variable controls
>> whether multiple lines are used.
>>
>> There's no way to actually force a line break though.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>
> Interesting.
>
> OK, thanks for the info. Just thought I'd ask, being a newbie and all.
>
> Let me hijack this reply for one more question, please.
>
> Is there a way to contact a user who doesn't seem to have a "User:"
> page? Other than just throwing their user name out here.
>

As in an openstreetmap username?
Sure, point your browser at http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/<username here>
You can see their diary, and any public traces they have. There is a
link at the top to send a message.
ie: my user page is at http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/randomjunk