[OSM-talk] mapnik rendering or tagging issue?

Ed Loach ed at loach.me.uk
Mon Oct 6 17:28:46 BST 2008


Stefan asked:

> Is this a problem in mapnik or is it a problem with the OSM
> data?
> If the latter, how can I fix it?

It looks like the data is OK. All three are cities, and each is
tagged as such. I suspect that the lowzoom Mapnik tiles just happen
to decide that rendering the outer two cities names would overlap
the name of the middle one, which is Montreal, so drops it. 

If we condoned tagging for rendering, you could perhaps move the
node that is used to label Montreal south slightly, so the captions
*might* not overlap, but it's probably best not to worry about it.

I'm wondering whether the Greater Montreal Area [1] is defined as a
region, and if so whether that label would take priority at certain
zoom levels?

Ed
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Montreal_Area







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