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

[Florian Lohoff]

On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 10:14:41PM +1000, John Smith wrote:
> 2010/1/2 Florian Lohoff <f at zz.de>:
> > 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.
> 
> Hmmm perhaps I should have been a little clearer, I'm thinking of
> administrative boundaries, in particular boundary relations, and there
> is lots of area names rendering in the middle of no where or duplicate
> names close to each other because there is a boundary + a place node,
> and well yea, postcode names rendering in the middle of no where:
> 
> http://osm.org/go/ueR62iP6
> http://osm.org/go/ueR_vjAf

Doesnt make sense - its just matter of fixing the mapnik config. I 
think currently it renders a name for all polygons. This should
probably be limited to certain types.

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                                 f at zz.de
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