[OSM-talk] Mapnik rendering labels for unrecognised tags

Steve Bennett stevagewp at gmail.com
Mon Aug 29 15:45:45 BST 2011


On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:
> It's always been the case that names sometimes get rendered for objects that
> haven't been rendered, because the names are produced by separate rendering
> rules and trying to attach to those rules a set of filters which match the
> set of objects which are rendered is more or less impossible.
>
> It's a bug in the mapnik stylesheet basically, but not one which is very to
> fix.

Thanks for the explanation. So I guess we should avoid using name=* on
anything which should not be rendered.

Steve



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