[OSM-talk] place=island rendering

[Ted Mielczarek]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Interesting issue. The techy in me thinks that tagging the island (tag
> the way) rather than a point may help, since that allows data
> consumers (e.g. renderers) to calculate the size of the island (and
> even, perhaps in future, the longest diagonal to write the name at an
> angle). Defaulting to putting the name in the middle of the polygon is
> easy and done already with buildings. We have a similar area-based
> thing with way_area in mapnik rendering rules already.
>

Yeah, the unfortunate thing here is that this import probably brought in a
few hundred to a few thousand of these place=island POIs, and I would hazard
a guess that a large (huge?) portion of them don't have the physical island
boundaries mapped (since a lot of them are so tiny).

-Ted
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