Street names?

[freeorange]

I think the addition of major street names (big highways, surface streets) would be an excellent addition to the software. As it is, you really have to decipher where everything is. Maybe as a feature the user can switch on and off?

I have a feeling something like this would be really hard to do. Adding street names for thousands of counties...

Just a thought.

[uhtu]

hmm. we *do* generate surface street and highway names for the US mappacks.
which county mappack is missing them?

[neocastill]

Bexar County has no street names. This would be a great addition. great software buy the way.

[mycroft]

both are right!

RiGLE does put street names on the maps, but sometimes they end
up in odd locations because I think RiGLE tries to put the names where they don't conflict with other graphic elements. Also, when you zoom in, it's a static image. If the name for the street was on some other part of the map, it's not in the more detailed view. All in all, it can be pretty annoying, I agree.

...Perhaps a new *iGLE project exists which has just reached stable prototype stage which fixes this (and other) issues beautifully?

[ideraid]

The St. Charles County, MO mappack barely has any streetnames and the ones that are on there aren't labeling the correct streets.

[izzy4505]

There are street names, but only for maybe about 2 roads in the whole area. . . the big ones. It may be beneficial to only add small street name data in the maximum zoom

[bobzilla]

In a future version of the client and mappacks these issues are solved. It should be coming out Real Soon Now...

[izzy4505]

Awesome. Could you elaborate maybe on the mappack format for developers working on a client for wigle? Pleeeeease.