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

[John Smith]

2010/1/3 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>:
> probably that's a mapping error? If there's a polygon the node could go. Or
> it could be added to a relation, where the node would be inserted as
> rendering-location-suggestion? This still might be different for different
> views and zooms.

The problem is, unless the polygon is circular the centre of the
polygon is only occasionally where you want the name to render, so
only rendering nodes rather than polygon names makes more sense.

> well, I myself consider rendering all polygon-names a feature (nice to see
> which features are maybe missing in the stylesheet), but for a "clean map
> for the consumer" I'd agree with you (though I don't consider Mapnik-OSM as
> such).

If you want such custom rendered maps that's fine, but I don't think
it should happen on a tile set intended for general consumption...