Six months ago Nilfanian raised the problem of labels on the base map, and suggested that a version with no labels at all would be helpful. The problem of non-alphabetic script on en: articles was one particular problem mentioned. Arbitrary mention of obscure places at lower zoom levels is another issue, as is the bug that chops up some names in zoom=9. These are all being cited as specific reasons to not use the map on en:wikipedia (eg at WikiProject UK geography). Is there any hope of an option to turn off place names, so that editors can then use the individual marks/labels to put in the ones appropriate to the article in question. (There are of course lots of other contexts - especially at higher zoom levels - where the existing labels are a great help).
Topic on Template talk:Graph:Street map with marks
Hi, technically the map without labels was created around half a year ago (try it) , but I am not sure it got exposed via the <mapframe/maplink> tags. For the street map template, I just added it as a template parameter, but it turns out there is a bug preventing the "osm" value for the style parameter, which I will try to fix tonight, and it should be deployed next week.
P.S. I am running for the WMF board, please support and vote next week :)
P.P.S. Tracking issue phab:T164046. Partial fix is already in place, needs to be submitted and deployed.
The base map zoom=9 label problem resolution is much appreciated. (Is it me, or are there now more place names? In busy areas is looks rather full. If I was creating a wishlist I might suggest the names could be smaller!
Looking at this graph source code, I notice that in the line with the style instruction, all the other elements have the quote mark after the '=' whereas the style has it after the '{{{style}}}'. Could that be where the problem lies? (With no knowledge of the routines this is calling, I am just stabbing in the dark though). Thanks.
The map labels work is being done at the moment by Paul, and I think there has been an announcement about it somewhere. Due to deployment freeze this week, I think it hasn't been updated yet on the servers, so might be another week until it is fully done.
Done - see the 3rd example. Note that "save preview" mode will not work for the next few days, until the servers are updated. The saved page should work fine.