On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Richard Fairhurst <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Frederik Ramm wrote: > > Why not just use the same naming we use for bitmap tiles. It's > > well established and everyone understands it. > > It's not really suitable for vector data, though. Firstly, the concept of > zoom levels doesn't apply - the vector data is the same at every zoom. You > could choose an arbitrary zoom level, perhaps, but you then risk choosing > one that's either too small-scale for mid-Wales (hundreds of empty tiles) > or > too large-scale for Karlsruhe (a few very big tiles). Secondly, to rephrase > Jukka's point, "everyone" is only "every OSM nerd", not "everyone who wants > a simple drop-in map for their webpage". > > Nic's suggestion looks interesting and I wonder whether > xmin_ymin_xmax_ymax.osm, with a configurable option to use either integer > projected co-ordinates or raw lat/longs, might be a good way forward. > > What about using a geohash lopped off at a certain number of digits? This forms a bounding box and gives a nice single-string filename.
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