[OSM-talk] i18n-rich areas on the map

[Shaun McDonald]

On 23 Jul 2009, at 09:17, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:34 PM, 80n<80n80n at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Tiles at Home uses this technique of a basemap with no captions and a  
>> text
>> layer  for lowzoom tiles (z1 through z6) .  Currently they are  
>> combined on
>> the server to create a composite image using some GD library I  
>> think.  This
>> seems to works very well and avoids duplicating the most compute  
>> intensive
>> part of generating a map tile.
>
> Yeah it would be neat to render a captionless layer in mapnik and then
> overlay text on it.
>
> Can mapnik support that? I'd have thought adding any sort of text to
> the map might have implications for the rendering itself.
>

The problem is being able to do the text collision avoidance stuff  
against non-text features, hence why it's not been done before.

Shaun

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