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

[Lennard]

Shaun McDonald wrote:
>> 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.

Collision avoidance across layers is slightly doable, but requires a 
good amount of effort. This particular example isn't helped by the fact 
that you're dealing with variable length texts for the same feature here.


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Lennard