On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Richard Weait <[email protected]> wrote, quoting some further unspecified 'Frederik':
> MilesTogoe wrote: >> we went to download a map of the world at a low zoom level 2 (which just >> showed continents and most country boundaries) yet the download size was >> huge - there wasn't any buttons or options to reduce the data levels - >> personally I thnk based on the scale, the data should be reduced >> accordingly > > No, it isn't. You get the raw data in full resolution. OpenStreetMap's > "core competency" is maps with lots of detail, not simplified maps of > the whole world. If you want the latter, you are much better off with > using the public domain data from http://www.naturalearthdata.com/ or, > even simpler, one of the public domain choices from > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Blank_maps. Note that it's also not Wikipedia's core competency, within the Wikimedia family that would be Wikimedia Commons, see: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Blank_maps -- André Engels, [email protected] _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
