Stretching map names over sea zones

[Hakuromatsu]

Something I posted in the main forum earlier this year, in the same vein as colorable wastelands:

If a nation owns every coastal province in a sea zone, why can't that sea zone count as a "land connection" for the purpose of printing names on the map? There's something unsatisfying about seeing "Spain" written two dozen times in the East Indies, or not seeing "Great Britain" cross over to its rightful Ireland.

 

[BaZERGer]

Perhaps if the name system could coorperate with the distance system, it could be used to link names over sea provinces up to a certain distance from other provinces, regardless of other conditions. Nation names don't appear till you zoom out anyway, so it's likely not going to cause and disturbances for your view when zooming in to handle units.