Map won't show building numbers (tileMill + OSM)

Question

i\'m using tileMill for creating offline map for my iPhone app, long story short - i\'ve downloaded OSM data for Ukraine region from here. I\'ve checked that online map(from

Answer 1

You need to understand, that OSM.org uses a pure rendering engine called Mapnik. Tilemill is a wrapper around Mapnik by simplifying stylesheets.

As @scai say, you need to create a stylesheet that renders a label for housenumbers. I'm not familar with tilemill to tell you what need to be done, but usually this consist of

• Adding a label symbolizer that looksup the addr:housenumber=* tag and prints the value in a appropriate font and size
• (creating fake nodes that deal with the placement of that labels within building outlines etc.)