Add the ability to not draw text that is illegible

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We have an application where we have fairly detailed maps and the camera displays in 3D (with a pitch of 60 degrees).

Some text becomes illegible when drawn far from the camera, especially road names in built-up dense residential areas that are styled with a "symbol-placement" of "line" .

A few examples are shown in the red ellipses in the screenshot below:


Is it possible to have a flag that would allow text that would be rendered illegibly (or below a certain size) to not actually be drawn (this would improve render performance and declutter the map for areas further from the camera)?

The root problem is that at the given zoom level we only want the text rendered when close to the camera.

Thanks

The issue provides a screenshot and describes illegible text in pitched 3D maps, but names no files, tests, or entry points. Trace text rendering and symbol-placement behavior in mapbox-gl-js, then define the flag's threshold and verify that distant text is omitted without affecting readable labels.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.