Reporter: Pepou
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 7.40am, Monday, 27th June 2011]

I've been long struggling with [http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/118596170 this (118596170) polygon]'s label - I was not being able to find it displayed on map, until I've noticed it being incorrectly placed a few hundred meters to the side. (The object is a simple 6-point polygon approx. 6 meter long - a tourism attraction.)

Create a 2x2 meter large 4 point polygon, tag and name it appropriately (e.g. amenity=school, name="School placed on our street"). The label will be most probably not 'visible' (zoom out might be necessary to locate it). Move around the corner points by few pixels - the label will erratically jump around in up to multiple hundred meter steps.

I understand that if a label is much larger than its objects, it is impossible to place it inside. But why not over the object or tightly near it???