[Tilesathome] User KML: Fonts

[Chris Fleming]

80n wrote:
> User KML
> You appear to be generating tiles with no street names or captions.  
> See: 
> http://tah.openstreetmap.org/Tiles/info.php?x=2045&y=1360&z=12&layer=tile 
> <http://tah.openstreetmap.org/Tiles/info.php?x=2045&y=1360&z=12&layer=tile>
>
> Can you check that you have the DejaVu fonts installed, I think that 
> is probably the cause of the problem.
>
> Also, does anyone have any ideas why the tiles generated by morwen are 
> different (nicer) than the tiles generated by everyone else? 
>
> See here: 
> http://www.informationfreeway.org/?lat=51.515771018963505&lon=-0.1724511280062591&zoom=15&layers=0B00F000 
> <http://www.informationfreeway.org/?lat=51.515771018963505&lon=-0.1724511280062591&zoom=15&layers=0B00F000> 
> the text on the right is fainter than on the left and looks nicer IMO.
>
> Morwen has Ubuntu / Inkscape 0.43 with a standard tiles at home client.  
> Is anyone running a similar set-up?  Do you get bold or faint captions?
I'm on Ubuntu (Standard Feisty Fawn) with inkscape 0.45 everything 
standard. My rendering looks pretty much the same as Morwen's...
http://www.informationfreeway.org/?lat=55.944420612097574&lon=-3.1873070519265787&zoom=15&layers=0B00F000

I can provide a login to my box if anyone wants to nosy around....

Cheers
Chris

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