[OSM-talk] Rendering street names across several ways

[zverik at textual.ru]

Hi.

Take a look at Saint-Petersburg map at zoom 13:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=59.9496&lon=30.2774&zoom=13&layers=B000FTF

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?

Thank you.


IZ