[Tilesathome] Lowzoom Place Labels displaced

[Knut Arne Bjørndal]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 09:20:57AM +0200, Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
> Knut Arne Bjørndal wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 07:25:04AM +0200, Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
> >> This is still the case. The lower zoom, the worse. That is why I turned 
> >> of lowzoom captions on z0-6 again. Continent captions, country captions 
> >> were far (extremely far) out of place. I think the place where Oslo is 
> >> located was labeled "Italy" :-).
> ...
> > I had a look at that patch, and couldn't really wrap my head around
> > why it would work. I discussed the projection stuff with 80n a while
> > ago, and iirc he had tried making those calculations more accurate
> > without seeing any improvements in the output, so I'm not sure that's
> > the way to go to fix the problem.
> 
> Perhaps it makes no different on z12 (I think deelkar once calculated 
> that it's half a pixel in z12 or so) and then we can skip this on osma. 
> But fixing this in orp so we can do lowzoom captions would still be great.

The context was lowzoom, so definitely lower than z12. It really would
be good to have better projection in both osmarenders, that's the core
reason we do so many rasterizer calls too, isn't it?

-- 
Knut Arne Bjørndal
aka Bob Kåre
bob+osm at cakebox.net
bobkare at irc
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