[OSM-talk] railway=halt rendering

Richard Mann richard.mann.westoxford at googlemail.com
Mon Jun 22 13:02:31 BST 2009


I know it's a devil of a balancing act, and am hugely grateful that
someone's made as good a job of it as you have already. Maybe it's one of
those instances when someone ought to discreetly shift the town name node to
somewhere a bit more renderer-friendly.

Richard

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mmmm text ordering. One of my least favourite problems to sort out.
>
> I've generally gone for the principle that all cycling information has
> to show up at some point, and in the case you link to it's the node
> network numbers that "bump off" the town names. I recently changed
> things around so that cycle route "shields" don't take off town names
> so it looks like I need to rethink node numbers as well. The problem
> is when there is a node number right beside the town name node they
> need to swap around at one zoom level or another.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Richard
> Mann<richard.mann.westoxford at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On the cycle map, I often find myself zooming in on the station to find
> out
> > the name of a town, though perhaps it would be better if the city name
> > rendered...
> >
> >
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.159&lon=4.515&zoom=11&layers=00B0FTF
> >
> > Richard
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Anton Yuzhaninov <citrin at citrin.ru>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Name of railway=halt rendered only on high zoom levels. In osmaprender
> it
> >> shown only at level
> >> 16, while it is useful to see name at zoom 13.
> >>
> >> As workaround for this railway=halt sometimes tagged as railway=station
> >> but it seems to be not
> >> correct:
> >>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_practice#Don.27t_map_for_the_renderer
> >>
> >> Also name for railway=station shown only at zoom 13, while useful to see
> >> this name at level 11
> >> or 12.
> >>
> >> --
>  >>  Anton Yuzhaninov
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