Yesterday at SOTMUS here in SF, Dane Springmeyer (Maobox) demonstrated 
something they call "overzooming" that might be worth investigating. It seems 
to solve the kind of problem Thomas is articulating.



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On Jun 9, 2013, at 9:14 AM, thomas bonfort <[email protected]> wrote:

> Jukka,
> No this is not considered, and you'll have to be really persuasive to make 
> this happen as I do not see any advantage of adding this :) The reason is 
> that in order to create e.g. the tile for level 0 for the first time, you'll 
> have to downsample (and maybe previously seed) the full z=21 level (and all 
> the intermediate ones).
> 
> regards,
> thomas
> 
> 
> On 9 June 2013 18:02, Rahkonen Jukka <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Have you been considering to seed the cache for aerial or satellite image 
>> layers in opposite order compered to the normal Z0, Z1, Z2... so that only 
>> the best resolution Z(max) tiles (or perhaps also Z(max-1) were requested 
>> from the WMS? The lower resolution tiles could me created by combining and 
>> resamplint tiles from the tiles of the higher zoom level in groups of 4. 
>> This should be much faster than asking lower level images from the WMS, 
>> especially if the WMS is a remote one and connection is slow. If resampling 
>> from Z+1 tiles yields to artifacts I feel that quality by resampling from 
>> Z+2 would normally be good and speed migh be still fantastic.
>> 
>> -Jukka Rahkonen-
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