Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik at zoom=19

2013-02-13 Thread Gervase Markham
On 27/01/13 15:38, the Old Topo Depot wrote: You may want to cross post to the broader talk list as well, as I have heard rumors of work related to this but have no knowledge regarding status. I read via Gmane, so I could be wrong, but I thought this _was_ the broad talk list for OSM... Gerv

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik at zoom=19

2013-02-13 Thread Gervase Markham
(Sorry I'm late back to this discussion.) On 27/01/13 11:39, Richard Fairhurst wrote: If you want to make it happen, the best way to do this is to take part in the project to port the current stylesheet to Carto: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto and to make sure that

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik at zoom=19

2013-02-13 Thread Christian Quest
One little step towards zoom 19 : http://tile.openstreetmap.fr:13080/?zoom=19lat=48.87164lon=2.30134layers=0B That's a new, fast server* under test (but hooked to my home DSL line so be patient). * see on wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/FR:Servers/Hardware#Dell_R610 2013/2/13

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik at zoom=19

2013-01-27 Thread Gervase Markham
On 18/01/13 14:29, Gervase Markham wrote: Who do we need to talk to or where do we need to file a bug to get this request considered officially? Anyone? Gerv ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik at zoom=19

2013-01-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Gervase Markham wrote: Who do we need to talk to or where do we need to file a bug to get this request considered officially? Anyone? If you want to make it happen, the best way to do this is to take part in the project to port the current stylesheet to Carto:

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik at zoom=19

2013-01-27 Thread the Old Topo Depot
Gerv, You may want to cross post to the broader talk list as well, as I have heard rumors of work related to this but have no knowledge regarding status. Best On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 3:39 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.netwrote: Gervase Markham wrote: Who do we need to talk to or

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik at zoom=19

2013-01-27 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/1/27 Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net: Gervase Markham wrote: Who do we need to talk to or where do we need to file a bug to get this request considered officially? Anyone? If you want to make it happen, the best way to do this is to take part in the project to port the current

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik at zoom=19

2013-01-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
On 27/01/2013 16:23, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: IMHO there is no connection between the port to a different style sheet language and the decision which zoom level gets rendered. The connection is that the current stylesheet is abandonware. If anything is to be fixed then it'll be in the Carto

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik at zoom=19

2013-01-27 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/1/27 Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net: Space requirements depend mostly on the actual usage (how many of them would be created). I guess it wouldn't make sense to prerender them I guess is nice for mailing lists, but the sysadmins can't be asked to make decisions based on a guess.

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik at zoom=19

2013-01-27 Thread the Old Topo Depot
A quick extrapolation re space is to take rendered zl18 tile size, in total, and multiply by 4. If someone can provide the zl18 number ... It seems reasonable to expect zl19 tiles to be of most interest in urban areas with high POI density, as those areas tend to drop display data due to

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik at zoom=19

2013-01-27 Thread Lennard
On 27-1-2013 17:23, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: current XML would render sufficiently well when you remove the minscale_zoom=18 filters. If convincingly implies different The minscale_zoom18 essentially translates to 'infinity' in the current stylesheet setup: !ENTITY minscale_zoom18 The

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik at zoom=19

2013-01-19 Thread Ilya Zverev
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: +1, the more you zoom in, the more you wish there were highway areas. No you don't. http://not.textual.ru/zverik/2/3/mapsurfer-areahighway-spb.png Highway areas look ugly, even at zoom 18. Openstreetmap.by also renders those areas:

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik at zoom=19

2013-01-18 Thread Gervase Markham
On 13/01/13 21:23, Christian Quest wrote: You can see what zoom level 19 looks like with Mapnik/cartocss style on http://layers.openstreetmap.fr/?zoom=19lat=48.87206lon=2.30069layers=B That's so much better than 18; all the shops are labelled. Gerv

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik at zoom=19

2013-01-18 Thread Gervase Markham
On 15/01/13 04:09, Jaakko Helleranta.com wrote: But I would say in any case that the reality as I see it builds increasing need for very high zoom levels. ... I recently switched to OsmAnd on my Android because it zooms upto level 23 Ah, that might be where I saw higher zoom levels. I use

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik at zoom=19

2013-01-18 Thread John Sturdy
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Christian Quest cqu...@openstreetmap.fr wrote: You can see what zoom level 19 looks like with Mapnik/cartocss style on http://layers.openstreetmap.fr/?zoom=19lat=48.87206lon=2.30069layers=B That looks excellent; I'm sure this would be

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik at zoom=19

2013-01-18 Thread Christian Quest
It could be improved for example by making use of width=* or lanes=* to adapt the highway widths. I think its the main thing that looks strange on the zoom 19 rendering. 2013/1/18 John Sturdy jcg.stu...@gmail.com On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Christian Quest cqu...@openstreetmap.fr wrote:

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik at zoom=19

2013-01-18 Thread Svavar Kjarrval
It does look strange when the Mapnik rendering doesn't seem to take width into account when rendering the data. Especially when we've drawn landuse areas around it (using fly-over imagery) and there's empty space between their boundaries and the path. - Svavar Kjarrval On 18/01/13 14:42,

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik at zoom=19

2013-01-18 Thread Janko Mihelić
2013/1/18 Svavar Kjarrval sva...@kjarrval.is It does look strange when the Mapnik rendering doesn't seem to take width into account when rendering the data. Especially when we've drawn landuse areas around it (using fly-over imagery) and there's empty space between their boundaries and the

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik at zoom=19

2013-01-18 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/1/18 Janko Mihelić jan...@gmail.com: 2013/1/18 Svavar Kjarrval sva...@kjarrval.is It does look strange when the Mapnik rendering doesn't seem to take width into account when rendering the data. Especially when we've drawn landuse areas around it (using fly-over imagery) and there's empty

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik at zoom=19

2013-01-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 18.01.2013 20:33, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: We'll have to start drawing roads as areas at some point. That point is probably not close, and layers would probably help with the huge amount of vectors we are going to get. But I think it has to happen. +1, the more you zoom in, the more

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik at zoom=19

2013-01-18 Thread Dave F.
On 18/01/2013 14:29, Gervase Markham wrote: That's so much better than 18; all the shops are labelled. Gerv +1 This is the primary reason mapnik needs a higher zoom level. More detailed mapping like shops is on the the increase at z18 the labelling of any object seems a bit random to

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik at zoom=19

2013-01-14 Thread Jaakko Helleranta.com
Big hand to OSM.fr for offering the z19! I've asked about this need before and will now just +1 the need for this also at osm.org. I would also welcome z20 -- perhaps with some request base limits (requested urban areas -- possibility to handle in more or less similar fashion as Mike does the

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik at zoom=19

2013-01-14 Thread Jaakko Helleranta.com
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: If mappers in Europe and North America think that z18 doesn't show enough detail, then imagine what it must be like for mappers who are located nearer to the equator. Because of the Mercator projection we use, higher

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik at zoom=19

2013-01-14 Thread Martin Trautmann
On 13-01-14 0:10, Kai Krueger wrote: Of cause that would put extra pressure on the renderer, but during normal operations (i.e. if it is not e.g. rerendering everything) it seems to still have a fair amount of capacity left. I agree that z20 and more would be very helpful on occasions - and

[OSM-talk] Mapnik at zoom=19

2013-01-13 Thread Gervase Markham
My memory may be playing tricks on me, but I'm sure it was once possible to zoom in 1 more level than it is now, on the slippy map on openstreetmap.org. This was useful because often what is simply an icon at z=18 will turn into an icon plus a business name at z=19, particularly when there are

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik at zoom=19

2013-01-13 Thread john whelan
Maperitive will give you even greater zoom levels off a local .osm map file. Cheerio John On 13 January 2013 15:23, Gervase Markham gerv-gm...@gerv.net wrote: My memory may be playing tricks on me, but I'm sure it was once possible to zoom in 1 more level than it is now, on the slippy map on

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik at zoom=19

2013-01-13 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 13.01.2013 21:23, Gervase Markham wrote: Did we ever do z=19? To my knowledge, no. Did we stop because it's a load more disk space, or something like that? If not, could we consider it? Given that very few areas are going to be even looked at at z19 I suspect the additional disk

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik at zoom=19

2013-01-13 Thread Kai Krueger
Frederik Ramm wrote Hi, On 13.01.2013 21:23, Gervase Markham wrote: Did we ever do z=19? To my knowledge, no. I am also reasonably sure z19 never existed. Osmarender only used to go to Z17 and so mapnik had one zoom level more than osmarender, but neither went further than z18. Frederik