Can we remove all the 'Gondwana Rainforests' areas?

Communities Oceania
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I’d like to remove (or hide or something) the areas titled “Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area” from OSM. They appear between Brisbane and Newcastle, and are a collection of National Parks that in 1986 the government decided were just so super special, that they needed a super special name to represent just how super special they were.

Anyway, their stupid big labels get in the way. Very annoyingly. The regions are almost 1-for-1 matches to either National Parks or protected State Forests, and I really believe their existence in OSM adds no value to map users.

Here’s some examples of them getting in the way:

The label for the area totally covers a hiking trail, making it impossible to follow:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-28.28624&lon=152.73036&zoom=15&layers=B000FTF

Same deal here, and some weirdness in the top left corner:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-28.23543&lon=153.13758&zoom=15&layers=B000FTF

More weirdness:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-28.18917&lon=153.21455&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF

Is there any sort of precedent for deleting this sort of information?

Casey.

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I don’t think removing information is the right answer, rather fixing the map data and/or the rendering, but it seems to be a map data issue.

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I think this is mainly due to a bug in the Mapnik rendering. Mapnik renders names for any ways that aren’t otherwise rendered. See http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/1514

There are a few other examples of this making things look strange, eg public transport pay scale areas, see http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2177

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Hello,

I had a look and removed the name from the ways as the name was also in the relation. Couldn’t see a point having the name on the way as the way isn’t shared with anything else such as a road.

Markus_g