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World-wide CartoCSS port of Stamen's classic terrain style
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Add natural feature labels? #17

Open clhenrick opened 9 years ago

clhenrick commented 9 years ago

Seems like some of these can be pulled in from Toner (eg: oceans and other bodies of water) but Natural Earth also has data for natural features at smaller scales / zoom levels. Could be a nice improvement to the original terrain tiles.

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almccon commented 9 years ago

Most of the low zoom labels in Toner are also sourced from Natural Earth. We love it for low zoom stuff. The original Terrain never needed to deal with very low zooms, but now we certainly do. Please pull whatever you can from Toner's use of Natural Earth.

clhenrick commented 9 years ago

reference cartocss from toner: https://github.com/stamen/toner-carto/blob/master/labels.mss#L395-L429

clhenrick commented 8 years ago

Pulling in Natural Earth data for labeling mountain ranges and other natural features could be nice at low zooms. Thoughts @almccon @seth?

mojodna commented 8 years ago

:+1:

clhenrick commented 8 years ago

Added labels for water bodies at low zooms. Time permitting I'll create custom labels for land area geo features in MAPublisher.

almccon commented 8 years ago

I think pulling in Natural Earth for mountain ranges is the best we can hope for. None of us will have time to do anything custom in MAPublisher. :(

I'll leave this open as a nice-to-have in case I have time for it later.

clhenrick commented 8 years ago

I'll experiment with map publisher sometime as well

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I think pulling in Natural Earth for mountain ranges is the best we can hope for. None of us will have time to do anything custom in MAPublisher. :(

I'll leave this open as a nice-to-have in case I have time for it later.

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almccon commented 8 years ago

Somewhat relevant: https://eox.at/2015/12/curved-labels/ @clhenrick you might find it interesting.

clhenrick commented 8 years ago

@almccon nice, interested in how much position tweaking is necessary with CartoCSS using that method. Will definitely be giving this a try!