[OSM-talk] Rendering street names across several ways

[Steve Bennett]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 5:54 PM,  <zverik at textual.ru> wrote:
> As you can see, on islands there are nine labels with street names, but
> plenty of space
> for such labels on many streets and avenues. Those names are not rendered,
> obviously,
> because most streets consist of several ways, due to routing and public
> transport reasons.
>
> Is there any plan, or just a thought, to merge ways on a rendering stage to
> display
> more street name labels? If not, why? Is there a renderer which does that?

I suggest you file a Mapnik bug in the trac.

Steve