Missing street name about maposmatic HOT 1 CLOSED

The index is created directly from the database, the index generator does not even know about the length of a street.

The actual map on the other hand is created using the original Mapnik stylesheet for the base layer selected, and the Mapnik renderer has internal rules for what to render or hide in case of collisions, and when text is too long to fit on the line or polygon object it should be rendered for.

In "real" maps this is often solved by just giving short streets a number, and placing a short index inside the map nearby, in the form:

1. Some street name
2. Other street name

This requires some knowledge in where to place such index text in the map without hiding too much other information, something that the Mapnik renderer is not clever enough to do (and I don't know of any other automatic map generating tool that could do that without human interaction either ... but then again I'm not really an expert in that field)

So long story short: the renderer and the index generator are independent components that just operate on the same database, and the indexer does not know anything about the renderers decision what street names to hide due to size or placement constraints.

from maposmatic.