[OSM-talk] osmarender slippy map rendering

[80n]

This is an intentional style.  As you zoom in place-names get bigger but
also become semi-transparent.  At some level they become invisible, ideally
when the extent of the place is larger than the viewport.

Do you have a better suggestion?

80n

On 4/1/07, David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:
>
> In the osmarender slippy map, I'm troubled by the way place names vanish
> as
> you zoom in.
>
> Consider:
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?lat=53.32663961898055&lon=-1.9796375
> 23001472&zoom=13
> (and switch to osmarender base layer)
>
> This shows the town of Whaley Bridge with its suburb Horwich End.
>
> Zoom in to level 14, and Whaley Bridge disappears altogether (even though
> its entire extent is visible), but Horwich End is much bigger. This gives
> the impression that the place is called Horwich End, not Whaley Bridge
> (the
> smaller red Whaley Bridge is the name of the railway station, which adds
> to
> the confusing impression).
>
> Browse a bit further east and the name of the larger town of
> Chapel-en-le-Frith is also not visible except as the name of the railway
> station (which is actually well out of the town).
>
> David
>
>
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