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

[Etienne]

Steve
The text alignment solution *might* work with the current version of
Osmarender since I think it was just a change to the rule file.

The trick is to set the startOffset to 50% and add
text-anchor='middle' like this:

		<textPath k="name" text-anchor='middle' startOffset='50%'
class="highway-trunk-name" />

Etienne

On 6/2/06, Steve Chilton <S.L.Chilton at mdx.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org
> [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.
>
>
> >
> > Martyn
> >
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