-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 26-06-12 23:05, Frederik Ramm wrote: > I have had some people asking whether I could supply them with > "Retina" map tiles. "Retina" is an Apple brand name for higher > resolution displays, and these users tend to mean tiles with twice > the resolution.
I am glad that "Retina" raises the issue, that is already present on Android, high resolution displays make the map unreadible. One of the angles I didn't saw you comment on was: going svg.gz all the way. Rendering tiles in SVG, doing so with a clue, for example fixed poit coordinates allows a decent compression over an easy zoom. The higher the DPI the more bandwidth is required to serve the tiles anyway, there must be some threshold where it is really more worthwile to render in whatever GL standard on the client, than sending over bitmaps as (effectively as textures). Stefan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEAREKAAYFAk/rP/wACgkQYH1+F2Rqwn3e0ACfZiFsvNudHwzFFPkvxnLbHi2s qPcAn3mviG0dSB6mqH5r6W5e5KVRP5h0 =f0jy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
