[Tilesathome] Paris Ugliness

[Matthias Julius]

Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> writes:

>      Paris looks really ugly on the t at h map. There are about 100  
> towns scattered around Paris - to me they look like suburbs but I  
> guess there is merit in tagging them as towns, as they seem to have >  
> 10k inhabitants each and probably also have their own administration.  
> But given the font size chosen for t at h rendering, it looks like a mess.
>
> http://www.informationfreeway.org/?lat=48.85550742702556&lon=2.3122157041517792&zoom=11&layers=B000F000

There we get bitten by the appearent French preference for long
names. But, the mapnik layer looks better here even though it uses a
bigger font. What is it doing differently?

What is really needed is a collision detection of names and symbols.

When panning around the map a came across this area:

http://www.informationfreeway.org/?lat=50.98161075635523&lon=10.21962365942465&zoom=9&layers=B000F000

There, Germany is next to Europe. This looks odd.

Matthias