Ticket #43 (assigned enhancement/feature request)

Opened 1 year ago

Last modified 3 weeks ago

Street names are displayed in bad ways

Reported by: hafting Assigned to: KaZeR (accepted)
Priority: major Milestone: version 0.2.0
Component: core Version:
Keywords: Cc:

Description

There are several problems with street names: * They are mostly printed on long straight sections of road. So curved roads, even slight curves don't get a name at all. It looks like the road isn't named. Names that follow the turns in the road would help.

* It looks like names are printed over and over, once for each straight segment if they are long enough. So some names occur over and over, and overlaps slightly. After a name there should be a pause of some length, where the name isn't printed again. This avoids "crowding".

* When a road is displayed much wider than the text height, please use a bigger font. The small fonts are necessary with lots of small roads, but bigger writing is much easier to read while driving.

Change History

01/28/08 01:55:26 changed by KaZeR

  • owner changed from somebody to KaZeR.
  • status changed from new to assigned.
  • milestone set to version 0.1.0.

07/02/08 19:18:51 changed by kiddo

other problems:
- when there are roads made of 2 separate lanes close together, the names will overlap
- roads that intersect with each other should never allow putting names near the intersection, they will overlap

I would also suggest using a sans sérif font, because the serifed/monotype one is currently difficult to read.

08/24/08 16:57:17 changed by anonymous

other problem: - at lower zoom levels neither city names nor any streetnames are displayed

12/14/08 09:44:11 changed by KaZeR

Labels now have bounding boxes, display should be enhanced. Can someone please confirm?