[OSM-talk] Rendering road names with osmarender

[Andy Robinson]

Your svg shows names in IE but I had to zoom in some way to see them. Guess
you need to adjust the scale factor and perhaps font size in the rules file
to improve this aspect.

Cheers

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Nick Burch [mailto:openstreetmap at gagravarr.org]
>Sent: 31 August 2006 11:40 PM
>To: Andy Robinson
>Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: RE: [OSM-talk] Rendering road names with osmarender
>
>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