Road names don't fit into symbols about mapquest-mapnik-style

[springmeyer]

This may be a mapnik regression - likely not a problem with the stylesheet. What mapnik version are you using? /cc @herm

[FewKinG]

I'm running on ubuntu 10.04 and am using the nightly build packages (mapnik2.0). I know these are prone to errors as they are not actual releases. So this might very well be an error or change on their side. Maybe I should try to build from the stable release and report back to you.

[herm]

Could be related to mapnik/mapnik#1078.

[springmeyer]

Okay, right if you are using the nighties that means you are running code that includes a very recent large refactoring of text placement. You likely want to follow mapnik/mapnik#1078 which I think is related and should be fixed shortly.

[FewKinG]

The referenced issue (1078) is not exactly related. It pointed me to the solution though. I had to change the placement attribute in the ShieldSymbolizers from
placement="line" (which aligns the text with the road)
to
placement="point"

This makes sense to me and I wonder if this also only changed in one of the later releases. Any idea if these adjustments should be applied to the mapquest repository?

[herm]

Should be fixed in mapnik/a05faceb11d1798eb708b1b0e23c08af51896f0a.

[FewKinG]

Ah okay, thanks a lot for your efforts. I will try out tonight's build tomorrow.