[OSM-talk] Rendering road names with osmarender

Nick Burch openstreetmap at gagravarr.org
Thu Aug 31 23:39:52 BST 2006


On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Andy Robinson wrote:
> Well I know firefox currently will not render the names. The Adobe plug 
> in for IE works pretty reliably and inkscape should work ok although I 
> sometimes run into a problem with it not rendering everything if the 
> volume of data is large.

It's a pretty small data set - see http://gagravarr.org/misc/svg/ for the 
.osm, .svg and inkscape generated .png

> I'm assuming the files in SVN are the current ones. The ones on the wiki 
> pages (ver 2) definitely work too.

The one on the wiki and the one in svn seem to be the same (differing only 
in where the expect to find the logo pngs)

> And finally check of course that the relevant highways have a recognised 
> "highway" and a "name" tags.

They should all do, but the .osm file is available from the url above if 
you want to check I haven't done anything silly :)

Nick




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