[OSM-talk] Tagging, map-features and rendering

[Steve Chilton]

Etienne,

Thanks for hint on untagged info showing up with the debug change. Have
made a duplicate version of the file with this change and it works
really well for seeing where you have been and where you have to go with
your tagging work.

I was also going to make the comment about centring the text rather than
offsetting that Martyn made as this would be really advantageous.
Presumed that calculating the mid-point of the way would be no problem,
but that fixing on the midpoint of the text might be (so that could be
aligned to said midpoint on way). Sounds like you may have cracked that
one, so await that in new version with interest.

Cheers
STEVE

Steve Chilton, Learning Support Fellow
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School of Health and Social Sciences
Middlesex University
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[mailto:talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Etienne
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 9:22 AM
To: Martyn Welch; talk at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging, map-features and rendering


On 5/31/06, Martyn Welch <martyn at welchs.me.uk> wrote:
<snip>


>
> I'm half tempted to tag all the segments as "highway=unclassified" so 
> that they show up with Osmarender. Being able to print a nice A4 map 
> of the basic paths would greatly aid my ability to walk around town 
> working out what I've missed and where ways should start and end!

There is a rule in the osm-map-features.xml rules file that will render
all segments however they are tagged.  This is intended for this purpose
so you can see what you forgot to tag.  Just uncomment it and then
everything will show up.

> >
> > [Osmarender hint: if you use the highway=residential tag the 40% 
> > startOffset placement for the road name will invariably throw the 
> > name off or truncate it because these roads are often very short. 
> > Editing the file (in 2 places) to a more suitable number like 20% 
> > helps a lot]
> >
>
> Would it not be better to center the name in the middle of the road?

The next version of Osmarender will do this.  I couldn't figure out the
correct SVG to get it to do that until now.


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