[Tilesathome] Huge Names for natural=water?

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Knut Arne Bjørndal wrote:
> It's a part of r9574, which includes a filter that or/p doesn't
> understand that makes osmarender xsl only print those labels for
> really large areas.

Ok folks. Either you stop using or/p altogether or you at least give me 
(or others working on or/p) some realistic chance to catch up.

In this case, you have changed the rules files and Osmarender/XSLT two 
days ago, introducing a new mechanism that you knew or/p didn't have 
(because it was, well, new). Not even a mention on the mailing list. And 
no, I don't have a RSS feed on SVN commits.

When that change was introduced, it was absolutely foreseeable that or/p 
would create those huge labels, that then somebody would complain, and 
that I would then be forced to fix that. Which is a rather sub-optimal 
flow of information, don't you think?

I have commented out the "minsize" rules for the time being to avoid 
further disfigured tiles.

To avoid problems like this in the future, I suggest to decouple

/applications/rendering/osmarender6

from

/applications/rendering/tilesAtHome/osmarender

so that improvements to Osmarender/XSLT and its rules do not 
automatically flow into tiles at home, but instead only after there has 
been a chance for or/p to catch up.

If you are unwilling to grant this chance to or/p and instead insist on 
dropping style changes into tilesAtHome that only work with the newest 
Osmarender/XSLT that you deploy at the same time and which will break 
or/p, then please stop using it, or if you prefer, make tiles at home use 
or/p *exclusively* in which case whatever happens to Osmarender/XSLT 
would become irrelevant.

(I'm still very much convinced that or/p is the right way to go for 
tiles at home as it can achieve in a few, easily readable lines of code 
what Osmarender/XSLT needs literally hundreds of lines for. But I won't 
put up a fight - if you don't want or/p then just say so instead of 
sabotaging it with pratices like these.)

Bye
Frederik

PS: I'm annoyed in case you haven't noticed.

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