[OSM-talk] Mapnik rendering labels for unrecognised tags

[Tom Hughes]

On 29/08/11 15:45, Steve Bennett wrote:

> 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.

Not really, no.

As always you should avoid tagging for the renderer and tag what exists 
on the ground and not worry too much about exactly how things render 
with the current rendering technology, which is bound to improve over time.

Tom

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