On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 18:53 +0000, Jon Burgess wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 09:23 -0800, Mikel Maron wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Country borders are only visible in the mapnik rendering a zoom 1-4. Any
> > reason they couldn't be visible at lower zoom levels?
> >
> > Mikel
> >
>
> They are derived from vmap0 data and I believe the quality is not good
> enough to use at higher zooms. The OSM border data used at the higher
> zooms is getting added pretty rapidly.
>
> Hopefully we'll be able to get rid of the vmap0 shapefiles and use only
> the OSM derived data in the future.
>
Now that I look again it seems we have little or no country border data
rendered on zoom 7+. I think it probably is due to the lack of OSM data
for country borders. It is not something you can easily record with a
GPS though so we probably need to find and import it from a suitable
source.
Jon
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