[OSM-talk] Render icons for parking areas

[Robin Paulson]

On 20/12/2007, Knut Arne Bjørndal <bob+osm at cakebox.net> wrote:
> "Robin Paulson" <robin.paulson at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On 19/12/2007, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> >> > i am confident the maths to figure out where to place the label,
> >> > whilst ensuring it is inside the bounds of the area (and complying
> >> > with any other set of arbitrary rules), would be fairly trivial to
> >> > implement.
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>
> Sounds really good, I've been thinking a good bit about how to solve this problem lately, without really having much luck.
>
> If you can come up with the algorithm and need help implementing it, just give me a holler and I'll have a look at it.
>

i came up with a few ideas last night, all needing some work to
complete them, but then jon burgess said earlier in this thread that
it was already done in mapnik. is osmarender a completely different
system, or is there some other good reason that method can't be used
here?

thanks for the offer of help, i will put some ideas up here as soon as
they are in a more friendly form