How do I rotate text [Tilemill]

Question

Does anyone know how to rotate text placed on the map? I'm labeling streets and would like have the name of the street run parallel with the street. Thanks!

Answer 1

Set the text-placement property equal to line. The property text-dy provides a pixel offset. For example:

#layer-id::labels {
  text-name: "[NAME]";
  text-face-name:'Norasi Oblique';
  text-fill:#bbb;
  text-size:15;
  text-placement: line; /* <-- this is the property you're looking for */
  text-dy: -8;
}

per https://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/docs/guides/styling-labels/

Answer 2

2

If you want to produce maps from raw OSM data via the Tilemill framework, try to find that feature in the documentation of tilemill.

If you cannot find anything there, try to ask the guys from Mapbox who develop tilemill.

Or you can have have a look at some other rendering programs like Maperitive ... maybe they have such a feature?

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answered 04 Apr '14, 14:23

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