[Tilesathome] Paris Ugliness

[J.D. Schmidt]

Matthias Julius skrev:
> 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
> 

k=place v=country and k=place v=region has been used appearently.

I noticed the same on the lowzoom maps for Denmark, when I manually 
rendered them. Here it was actually wrong, since someone had tagged 
islands with k=place v=region, instead of the non-rendered mapfeatures 
listed tag k=place v=island.

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