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stamen / terrain-classic

World-wide CartoCSS port of Stamen's classic terrain style
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Better place name label hierarchy & placement #81

Open clhenrick opened 8 years ago

clhenrick commented 8 years ago

Believe labels for certain places are being sized based on population data, this should probably not be the sole factor for label prominence. Perhaps it would be helpful to pull scalerank from Natural Earth's populated places to be included with Aries and use that instead?

For example the Seattle area at z11, the label for Seattle doesn't render:

screen shot 2016-07-11 at 10 14 58 pm

And the SF Bay Area at z11, the label for SF should probably be more prominent than Oakland, though it has a smaller population:

screen shot 2016-07-11 at 10 12 15 pm

geoglrb commented 8 years ago

On the top map, Eastgate has population <5000 and is labeled. Seattle has population >500000 and is not labeled. The problem may not be correlated with population, so it might be more of a bug...?

clhenrick commented 8 years ago

Yes it's likely to do with Seattle's label falling on or very close to a tile edge which may be why it's not being rendered.