[OSM-talk] Rendering road names with osmarender

Nick Burch openstreetmap at gagravarr.org
Sat Sep 2 21:39:27 BST 2006


On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, OJW wrote:
> Yes, but they're very small (smaller than the edges of the roads - will 
> probably be smaller than pixels when you view it in a browser).
>
> When I rendered it I set scale to 0.2 to get the names nice and big - 
> smaller scale, bigger features.

Ah, I'd gone with a scale of 3.5 so that it looked a sensible size 
compared to the logos. (At 0.2, the map is hidden under them!)

With a scale of 0.2, I do see the road names, though it does struggle to 
fit many of the names inside the roads

Oh well, it gives me something to work with

Nick




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