The default style should differ name and ref

[naoliv]

One way has ref=LMG-654;CMG-251 and the other one name=LMG-654;CMG-251 but we can't see any difference:

If possible, we should display them with a different style (so we could differ if what we see is ref and/or name)

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[Klumbumbus]

Do you have an idea how to differ them?

[naoliv]

Shields (#7151) would be nice for ref.

But since we don't have it, is it possible to:

1) have the text background with a different color? (for ref)
2) use italic or bold for ref?
3) display ref with square brackets?
4) invert the colors if we have name or ref? (name = black text-color + halo with color (as it is now); ref = color in text + black in halo)

And ideas/doubts when both name and ref are tagged:

5) can we concatenate texts with different properties?
6) vertically displace the text if we have both ref and name? (ref on top, name below, both centered)
7) concatenate [ref] name? (with square brackets in ref, or something like this)

[Klumbumbus]

• different font styles make the text harder to read at the small text sizes
• using mixed texts (like [ref] name) would override our auto text feature (advanced preference key mappaint.nameOrder)
• if then it should be universal, not only for highway name vs. ref.

So I think this highly depends on the individual taste of the user if and how he wants to display texts and I can't really find a proper universal solution for the default style. Users can adjust the display by an individual mappaint style. Here are some code snippets for possible solutions:

*[!name] {
    font-weight: bold;
}


*[!name] {
    font-style: italic;
}


*[!name] {
    text-color: non_name#d9ad00;
}


*[ref][!name] {
    text: concat("[", tag(ref),"]")
}


*[ref][name] {
    text: concat("[", tag(ref),"] ", tag(name))
}

Also I don't know about the performance of the style with a rule like *[!name] as this applies to nearly every object including all those untagged waynodes.

It's a wontfix ticket for me.

[Klumbumbus]

Replying to Klumbumbus:

the individual taste of the user

(I for example permanently disabled the street names display in the default style via the style settings as this is too much useless clutter for my taste. When I work with adresses or street names I use the style Coloured Streets.)