mapbox/tilemill — Issue #1066: Invalid column in text-name fails silently
Author: perrygeo
Created: 2012-01-03 19:43:50+00:00
State: open

When labeling a vector dataset with column name [Shrt_NM], the following causes rendering to fail silently

text-name: '[SHRT_NM]';

It saves successfully but the result is a completely blank map; no tiles appear to be rendered at all. The expected behavior would be to highlight the line and display an error message similar to:

The specified text-name "[SHRT_NM]" did not match a column in the db.

Using v0.8, node v0.4.9