Captions on ways (polylines)

[sikmir]

According to doc captions on ways (polylines) are not supported yet:

smrender/doc/smrender.html

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	<b>Captions on ways&nbsp;&nbsp;</b> are handled a little bit different from captions
	on nodes. Actually, captions on ways (polylines) are not supported yet but
	captions on areas (closed polygons) are supported very well, although it is still
	in development.

Is there any workaround to get captions on ways? Or is it planned to support?

[rahra]

Yes, there is a workaround. What exactly would you like to do?

[sikmir]

I would like to render names for rivers, is it possible now?

[rahra]

What you have to do is to let smrender insert nodes at a specific distance and then render the captions on the nodes.
The following rules would do exactly that:

   <way>
      <tag k='waterway' v='river'/>
      <tag k='_action_' v='ins_eqdist:distance=3'/>
   </way>
   <node>
      <tag k='waterway' v='river'/>
      <tag k='_action_' v='cap:font=serif;size=2;key=name;color=blue;anglekey=bearing;angle=90'/>
   </node>

It's not perfect but better than nothing.
Actually I forgot that I did never implement it. I'll put it on my list.