[OSM-talk] Custom rendering of a small map

[Gary68]

hi,

thanks for the information. i thought that some issues were related to
the style file but of course some are technology inherent - and might
need heavy thinking and development before being solved. at least
speaking for mapgen.pl

regarding mapgen:
- the icon issues could be solved quickly by the user (by drawing or
using new ones)
- it is true that way and poi labels might overlap. but not inside a
group. that is a street label will not overlap another street label
- font sizes can easily be adapted
- oneway arrows share the space with way labels ;-)
- road ends are not square :-)
- choice of pois is done in style sheet 

cheers 

gerhard
gary68


On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 11:49 +0100, Gervase Markham wrote:
> On 06/06/10 17:46, Gary68 wrote:
> > could you please be a little bit more precise what you don't like at
> > osmarender and especially mapgen.pl?
> 
> It was me who said that, actually. Here are a few comments, mostly in 
> relation to the Mapnik style:
> 
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.40961&lon=0.01101&zoom=16&layers=0B00FTF
> 
> * Bus stop icons are big and ugly
> * In fact, many icons have too few colours
> * Lots of text rendering has letters overlapping themselves
> * Text in different categories overlaps (e.g. road names/train station
>    names/POI names)
> * Font is probably 1-2 px too big to fit nicely in the roads
> * Road names overlap one way arrows
> * Road ends are square
> * Choice of POIs to render seems not as good as Mapnik
> 
> Example of lots of overlapping text:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.40711&lon=0.01398&zoom=17&layers=0B00FTF
> 
> Hope that's a useful start... My suspicion is that some of this stuff, 
> like text rendering, cannot be fully fixed with the technology choices 
> inherent in the way OSMARender works. But I'd love to be proved wrong.
> 
> Gerv
> 
> 
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