[OSM-talk] Mapping Reading, some impressions

[Tom Chance]

Ahoy,

On Sunday 10 September 2006 09:38, Etienne wrote:
> On 9/5/06, Tom Chance <tom at acrewoods.net> wrote:
> > With pub names it's not too much of a bother, but I've attached a
> > screenshot
> > with a collection of errors and nitpicks that are really a huge hassle to
> > correct over a large map. I don't know what can be done about them, but I
> > thought I should flag them up:
> >
> > * small bendy roads have completely hopeless labels
> > * labels on short roads get cut off
> > * neither the corner on Selva Court nor slight bends in Mount Pleasant
> > worked
> > * the Mount Pleasant label starts at one end and finishes at the other?!
> > * the many residential abutters look a bit messy
> >
> > With the Mount Pleasant label, I've found a similar effect happening when
> > I
> > edit pub names. Open an osmarender SVG and try editing a name, perhaps
> > hitting enter to make the label cascade vertically to fit better. Weird
> > things happen!
>
> For things to look right when rendered with Osmarender it requires that all
> segments in a way are ordered correctly and all pointing in the same
> direction.  The order and direction of segments is used to define the path
> along which the road labels are drawn.

In the new screenshot attached I deleted the 'Mount Pleasant' way, checked 
that the segments are indeed all pointing in the same direction (they were), 
recreated the way by clicking on the segments in order, put in the metadata, 
saved and osmarendered the area. You can see the result... now am I doing 
something wrong, or is this a bug in osmarender?

The same applies to short roads and bendy roads, where the labels never fit in 
properly and sometimes go a bit nuts. It's not, so far as I can see, a 
problem with the way the data is entered, but maybe I'm wrong?

Kind regards,
Tom

-- 
The task of critique is not to denounce the ideals, but to show their 
transformation into ideologies, and to challenge the ideology in the 
name of the betrayed ideal (Fromm – Beyond The Chains Of Illusion)
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