[OSM-talk] OSM rewriting history : France is now part of Germany !

[Florian Lohoff]

On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 09:37:15PM +1000, John Smith wrote:
> 2010/1/2 Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com>:
> > Look here:
> >
> > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.6238&lon=7.8259&zoom=14&layers=B000FTF
> >
> > Mapnik is showing a "Germany" label in Strasbourg which is, as far as
> > I know, still part of France ;-)
> >
> > It's not a node, so my guess is that label is coming from a huge
> > polygon but, stilll, I don't know what can be a polygon named
> > "Germany" and its centre is so far in the west...
> 
> Does anyone know of a good reason for the names of polygons to render?
> 
> Most of the time, there is a place node for where things should
> render, otherwise you get the names of postcodes and names rendering
> in the middle of no where.

Isnt it the natural thing to do? Lakes have names, forrests sometimes
have and at least in Germany industrial areas have usually names which
should be shown on the map.

Flo
-- 
Florian Lohoff                                                 f at zz.de
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