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How can I get street names to show up when I zoom out?

asked 12 Aug '15, 00:50

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Hi you cannot change the policy of the renderer, realize that if the names stay displayed, the ways will be covered by the characters when zooming out, the map changes in just a display of names without the visibility of the roads or ways you want to display in the first place. It’s the oldest mappers dilemma what do I want to display ? The ways, then leave the characters out of it, zoom in and you will get sufficient space to display all the names. Feel free to build your own using uMap, with a build in renderer. Or build your own map with a renderer for it but remember these lines, 'a mapper is an artist in display but more of leaving out'.

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answered 12 Aug '15, 10:03

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