[Talk-us] Hey, look! State / Prov borders!

Paul Johnson baloo at ursamundi.org
Wed Aug 26 18:30:03 BST 2009


On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 08:47 -0600, James Ewen wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Richard Weait<richard-gNTHUr35LhcAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> > So we USA-ians have a few nodes to move for place=state;
> 
> Ooh, yuck... the state name labels end up in the wrong spots... missed
> that. Washington looks like it has two labels.
> 
> I had a look at Canadian labels and they look okay except for Nunavut.
> The NU label is good when zoomed out, but I don't see the name Nunavut
> when zoomed in like the rest of the provinces/territories.

I noticed the abbreviated labels but didn't bother to check the
underlying data... but I do have to wonder if whoever brought in
province/state names and boundaries has seen the many pages in the wiki
saying "DO NOT ABBREVIATE"

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