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stamen / toner-carto

CartoCSS port of Toner
http://maps.stamen.com/toner
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Open MDLutoronto opened 8 years ago

MDLutoronto commented 8 years ago

Labels seem to render every label for every street segment when using in QGIS using Toner. I was looking at Toronto and West Nipissing in Ontario. It does seem to also happen when using maps.stamen.com so doubt it's a QGIS problem. thanks.

Marcel Fortin marcel.fortin@utoronto.ca

almccon commented 8 years ago

Agreed, it's definitely not a QGIS problem. For reference, here is the original bug report: https://twitter.com/mapsgis/status/736182877377990656

Location: http://maps.stamen.com/toner/#16/46.3687/-79.9224

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But I note that the default OpenStreetMap map style has the same problem: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/46.3682/-79.9233

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That's because between each intersection these roads are all individual OSM "ways", which is not standard mapping practice. It's due to an old and messy GeoBase import that hasn't been cleaned up.

See one of the ways here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/34739295#map=16/46.3680/-79.9224

I suggest you clean up the area on OSM, by connecting those separate short ways into longer ones. Then Toner will look better once we update the data (although that will probably take a few months before we do it again)