[OSM-talk] Cambridge complete!

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Quoting Steve Chilton:

> Someone on the list

... me ...

> came up with a workaround for this the other day, but as it involved
> editing font files it wasn't really for me.

The only reason for me not to distribute the modified font was  
license concerns (as it was a derivative of the Microsoft Verdana font).

I have meanwhile found a font that looks much like Verdana but has a  
license allowing derivative works and distributing them: Bitstream  
Vera Sans. (The condition is that the derived works must not contain  
"bitstream" or "vera" in their name.)

So I prepared a ready-to-use font with a built-in baseline shift that  
works around the bug in inkscape. Download

http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/downshift.ttf

and install it properly, and change all occurrences of "verdana" in  
your .svg file to "downshift". You should then see something more  
pleasing to the eye!

(I have yet to better understand the tiles at home infrastructure but in  
the long run I hope that we can enable this workaround for  
distributed tile rendering as well!)

Quoting David Groom:

> But I will just go over those now as I will be using
> osmarender for this.

Give Jochen's "osmarender4" (from SVN) a try. It does a good job at  
avoiding upside-down names, only screws up if you have segments  
within one way that run in different directions.

Bye
Frederik

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