[OSM-talk] Names, split streets and relations

[Henry Loenwind]

Gervase Markham wrote:

> Indeed. My question is: can they? :-)

> (The opposite problem is the very long road which is a single way. The
> name should regularly repeat, but I don't think it does on either Mapnik
> or Osmarender.)

I have proof-of-concept code for Osmarender (or to be more correct: for 
any renderer that reads osm files) that does exactly those two things.

The concept I implemented splits each way into 3 parts:

(1) The original ways without name or ref.

(2) A way with only the name, split into same-sized parts of a 
configurable maximum length.

(3) A number of nodes with only the ref-tag, distributed evenly with a 
configurable maximum distance along the way.

Example, rendered with Kosmos: http://j-e-b.no-ip.com:8080/p/map.jpg

Code, Perl: http://j-e-b.no-ip.com:8080/p/cwc.pl

Note: The code will output a new osm file containing the original data 
and new ways tagged with "nameway=(any highway type)" and "name=*", and 
new nodes tagged with "refway=(any highway type)" and "ref=*". So you 
need to adapt your rendering rules to (a) not render names for 
highway=*, (b) render names for nameway=*, (c) render little boxes for 
refway=*.

Also: DO NOT UPLOAD THE RESULT FILE TO THE SERVER!!!

cu
Henry

PS: The list of supported highway types has not been updated since early 
May.