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Add casing to street names (was Black street names versus trees)

Open jidanni opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

These street names look great!: Screenshot_20221215-175937_Vespucci.jpg Except when they are on top of a dark background, like trees: Screenshot_20221215-175852_Vespucci.jpg (You would never guess the name of that lane.)

Perhaps the names could have their borders following along with them, like in this example: Screenshot_20221215-180230_All-In-One Offline Maps.jpg That way they would be safe, no matter what the background, or what font size the user uses, or screen magnification etc.

jidanni avatar Dec 16 '22 02:12 jidanni

Android does not support adding casing to text, so this would have to be done by a workaround in some form by writing the text twice. This works OK for linear features (that is how the casing is added for ways), but is likely rather messy and slow for text.

The standard attribution text uses a shadow layer (provided by Android) to enhance legibility, but that doesn't really work that well.

simonpoole avatar Jan 04 '23 09:01 simonpoole