[Tilesathome] Rendering county names

Alex S. maps at swavely.com
Thu Nov 29 20:51:16 GMT 2007


Dirk-Lüder Kreie wrote:
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> Chris Hill schrieb:
>> I've noticed that county names have started rendering, so I added place=county, name=East Riding of Yorkshire in a location that is fairly central to the county and not too cluttered.  Unfortunately the name looks too long:
>>  [..]
>> How else might it be persuaded to render in full?
> 
> As a workaround: Try putting the node at lon=-0.571289 (exact tile
> center) and rerendering the tile and adjacent tiles left and right.
> (x=2040,2041,2042;y=1316)
> 
> unfortunately the renderer has a limited view and looks just a smal bit
> outside it's current tile to catch labels, but with long texts like this
> it fails.

Another trick is to make an untagged way that extends from the placename 
node into the tile it's not getting rendered.





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