[OSM-newbies] Controlling label position

[Someoneelse]

> One kludge I have used is to create a line that has a name but won't 
> render, like this....
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=34.33732&lon=-118.2698&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF

It just goes to show that one person's "bug" is another person's 
"feature" - I logged the fact that the names of named, unrendered ways 
are shown as a bug a bit back:

http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/1514#preview

(not that it helps you in any way, but I thought that I'd mention it!)