[OSM-talk] osmarender

David Groom reviews at pacific-rim.net
Sat Oct 14 15:09:39 BST 2006


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From: "David Earl" <david at frankieandshadow.com>
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Subject: [OSM-talk] osmarender


> What are the best ways of dealing with the following?
>
> - short Ways with names get truncated. How can the whole name be rendered?

You could add the tag  svg:font-size=0.8  to the way, so that the road name 
is rendered in a smaller font size.  Play around with the value until the 
text seems an appropriate aize [ Note: there is a clon between 'svg' and 
'font']

David

>
> - I have a number of streets with spidery layouts: a road branches several
> times all with the same name; or even just the two branches of a turning
> head at the end of a close. In this case the names often render in very
> peculiar orders. Splitting into several Ways would end up with too short
> Ways so suffer from the above.
>
> - Some of my cycleways have names (they're effectively streets restricted 
> to
> cycles). I've changed the rendering locally to show these (white on the
> default green line). I think this ought to be in the default version. Can 
> I
> do this myself, if so how?
>
> - The property 'place=suburb' which is on the list of supported tags is 
> not
> rendered. I guess I can do the same as the above. Same as 'place=village'
> but with smaller text I think. Can I release it?
>
> - The Batik Squiggle SVG viewer claims the map.svg file is invalid:
> "map.svg#triangle for a CSS property found on the element <path> is 
> invalid"
>
> - printing from IE7 changes the aspect ratio of the map. As far as I can
> tell it seems to scale the portion visible in the browser to fit on the
> paper in both directions ignoring aspect ratio. Presumably this is a bug 
> in
> the Adobe SVG applet, yes?
>
> David
>
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