[OSM-talk] Newbie - queries and usability suggestions

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On 11/18/06, David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:
>
> > name_direction=-1 is deprecated.  Use osmarender:nameDirection=-1 in
> preference to do the same thing.
>
> How are we supposed to know that?


There's no reason you should have been expected to know that.

It doesn't actually say anywhere that name_direction is deprecated, however
the current docs do say to use osmarender:nameDirection.    I guess there
was a lot of new stuff in Osmarender 3.0 and I forgot to mention it
anywhere.

osmarender acts on it, and lots of nodes
> have it. If you want to deprecate something, how about converting the old
> to
> the new in the database? (Obviously not appropriate always, but here I
> think
> it is). Much better solution by the way, I just wish it was easier to find
> these things out.



> You can use osmarender:renderName=no to suppress names in this situation.
>
> Ditto. Nice to know. Where are these special osmarender tags documented?


Here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Osmarender#Osmarender_Tags

> Sadly I've not yet found a way to make Osmarender be smarter in these
> cases.
>
> If I understand how osmarender works, I'm not sure it can. I think this
> has
> to be done algorithmically. I think there's a lot more that could be
> improved by an algorthmic rather than rule based rendering, in particular
> placing of labels and detection of adjacent ways with the same name. As
> I've
> been cycling round Cambridge I've been thinking about how I would approach
> this problem, so maybe I'll try to put my money where my mouth is at some
> point.


Any ideas would be welcome :-)

David.
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