[OSM-talk] Osmarender with streetnames and creating svg

[Adam Cripps]

On 10/17/06, Christoph Eckert <ce at christeck.de> wrote:
>
> > When I run render my data with osmarender, the streetnames don't
> > show up even though I've used the tags name: Streetname. Is there a
> > tweak or something to fix this?
>
> I did
> highway:residential
> name:Main Street
> which works very well. Please note that Firefox 1.5 cannot display text
> embedded in SVG. Use Inkscape instead.
>
> > Also, how do I got about creating an svg file so I can show my
> > friends my hard work and try and persuade them to have a go at
> > mapping their areas?
>
> You can view it in Firefox (better 2.0 due to the text displaying issue)
> or Inkscape. Inkscape lets you export it to raster graphics like png.
>

Inkscape works perfectly for now (and displayed some of my other
tagging faults).

Many thanks

Adam
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