more prominent city labels on z5 to z10 #2175
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It would be nice and useful. What strikes me more on this comparison is how FR style avoids our problem of obscuring city names by admin boundary names (#1391)? |
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I think that in this case, the “type color” might have more influence than the font size. That means: Darker type colour: Lighter type colour For place=village, we are currently switching starting with z14 from a darker to a lighter text colour. That means less emphasis on higher zoom levels, what is good. This might be a good thing also for other placenames. #2178 removes bold text for POI. This could be a opportunity for starting using bold typefaces for placenames. However, it might not be trivial to organize all these parameters hierarchical. |
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Interesting experiment. I think the dots are currently too heavy (and I'm not sure yet if they are a good idea at all). Maybe making them grayer and/or smaller works? |
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Additional before after are at https://github.com/matkoniecz/before_after_for_placenames |
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Note point signatures for settlements means off center labels and off center labels with a static direction looks fairly primitive in general. And in any case this kind of labeling can lead to ambiguities (which label belongs to which dot). Long story short - i think this kind of labeling is only appropriate if there is sufficient finesse behind it to gracefully deal with these things. |
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It's very interesting, and could be clearer than the label-only approach at showing where exactly a town is. But as @imagico said, it would need more "finesse", and that may be a lot of work. For comparison: the Humanitarian Style has dots for places, and seems to put the label either at top right or bottom left. |
From comparing with FR fork I think that making labels of cities more prominent may improve map.
I am less sure about increasing how many cities are rendered. And it seems that our algorithm for finding important cities is better than one used in FR style.
http://mc.bbbike.org/mc/?lon=22.000071&lat=51.186417&zoom=7&num=2&mt0=mapnik&mt1=osmfr&marker=
Related to #1935
FR code is probably at https://github.com/cquest/osmfr-cartocss/blob/master/placenames.mss
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