Forest parcel name rendered in osmarender, zoom 17
At crossings of tracks in the woods, you often can find up to four name plates displaying the names of the adjacent wooden parcels. I usually placed a node tagged as place=locality and added the names. Of course this leads to a situation where the names will overlap each other, and after collecting some of those plates, it was desirable to draw the parcels as areas with the name rendered at the center, not as individual nodes at the vertices. I currently add a polygon tagged as landuse=forest.
While Mapnik renders the names of natural and landuse features in zoom levels 14 through 17, Osmarender only rendered them visibly at zoom level 17. It rendered natural names at zoom levels 16 and 15, but subsequently the caption was hidden by the rather huge surrounding wood polygon. landuse was missing in those levels.
I’ve thus adjusted the render rules so the names of natural and landuse features also get displayed at zoom levels 16 and 15. I hope this won’t mess up the map in densely populated areas. If so, please drop me a line and I’ll change the additional k="landuse" v="*" to something like k="landuse" v="forest|wood".
As soon as the changes are slurped by the tiles@home clients, I’ll start to convert the locality-nodes to something like amenity=nameplate or similar to finally clean up the map.
