Also note, that labels have nothing to do with resolution. They depend much more on the 0x type. Also there is a difference in importance of labels of POI/POLYGON/POLYLINES. If a place is shown but no label, then lowering the resolution won't change (but instead create a mess in the lower resolutions). The only improvement would be to include population>?? to places (particulary cities & towns) for finer separation. However this would then still cause problems if looking at i.e. Benelux/Nordrein-Westfalen vs less populated regions. If you want a map for Alaska you could simply lower resolution for nearly everything by 1-2 levels. However that should not be default (default should be based on rather heavily populated regions, as those regions have most potential people using the maps...). On 27.06.2011 22:33, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 11:12:51AM +0200, Minko wrote:
On http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=12817 someone reported that the name labels of places disappear too quickly. I would say that it is a matter of taste. If I look at the basemap at the widest zoom with full map detail on the Edge 705, I will not see any country borders in Europe because they are obscured by the country names.
When I look at the default style, I notice there are some points for improvements:
place=city [0x0400 resolution 20] place=hamlet [0x1100 resolution 23] place=suburb [0x0a00 resolution 23] place=town [0x0800 resolution 22] place=village [0x0b00 resolution 24] place=island [0x650c resolution 22] These are somewhat out of sync with the polygons style file, which specifies resolution 19 for village and island, and 20 for islet.
- villages are only shown at level 24 where hamlets are shown one level lower - resolution 23 is mentioned here, although it is not set in the options file: levels = 0:24, 1:22, 2:20, 3:18, 4:16 - all place names are only shown at the highest zoom levels. In my opinion cities should also be visible at levels 18 or even 16? Towns can better be set to 20, villages/suburbs 22 and hamlets 24?
Maybe Marko can have a look at this? OK, I will experiment with this.
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