Render names of aerialway better visibly and before names of aerialway=station

FMVi commented 6 years ago

Right now names on aerialway=station are rendered at z=14 in blue, while the ones of aerialways are at z=17 in grey/black.

There is a number of problems:

At z=17 on a laptop screen even chairlifts of average length don't fit on the screen completely at all. If the name is rendered once only, you have to drag the map along the aerialway to find it.
The font is weak, especially being rendered over landuse=forest, which happens. It could be much more highlighting, as aerialways in skiing resorts barely cover any other objects around (while stations located in villages do) .
By that, the rendering still provides the wrong tagging method naming aerialways on their stations than on themselves.

I suggest the following:

Rendering the name-tag of aerialways from z=14 on in a bold font
Rendering the name-tag of aerialway=station from z=16 on, which would be the same rendering of highway=tram_stop.

kocio-pl commented 6 years ago

Thanks for the report. Would you like to try making the code changes and testing how it really works?

FMVi commented 6 years ago

Thanks for the offer, I would really like to give it a try. I just would like to know how the changing process works and how I can preview my file changes on the map.

kocio-pl commented 6 years ago

Great! The most basic things in my experience with newcomers is to read these two docs:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Standard_tile_layer https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/blob/master/DOCKER.md

f you will have any problem or questions, just write here.

matkoniecz commented 6 years ago

Are there aerialways where station names are important?

dieterdreist commented 6 years ago

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On 22. Sep 2018, at 15:25, Mateusz Konieczny notifications@github.com wrote:

Are there aerialways where station names are important?

I would expect many station names important. An interesting test case might be here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/query?lat=47.42131&lon=10.98544#map=14/47.4162/10.9833

jeisenbe commented 5 years ago

@FMVi are you still considering fixing this? Do you need help setting up Docker or figuring out how to use git and GitHub?

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Render names of aerialway better visibly and before names of aerialway=station #3321