[OSM-talk] duplicate, clashing rendering of names

[Chris Hill]

> From: Robin Paulson <robin.paulson at gmail.com>
> 
> i'm having problems when dual-carriageway roads are rendered - each
> carriageway gets the name next to it, but the two sides are virtually
> on top of each other. is there anything that can be done to stop this,
> or is it waiting for someone to come up with an intelligent plugin for
> the renderers that places names in a nice way?

This is one of the improvements that relations promise to bring.  The idea is that you make both carriageways part of a relation with type=dual_carriageway and the renderer then only labels it once.  As yet it doesn't seem to work, but I guess it will in the future..  

As far as I can see the relation type that does work is the rather curiously named multipolygon which I have used in rivers to map islands very successfully.


cheers,
Chris



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