Re: [OSM-talk] Isn't it time for a higher zoom level?

2009-11-22 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 13:50, Igor Brejc igor.br...@gmail.com wrote: Richard, thanks for mentioning Kosmos :) Yes, Kosmos draws OSM data on-the-fly and it supports continuous zoom levels (I've limited it up to zoom level 18 because of some .NET drawing engine problems on higher zooms). There

Re: [OSM-talk] Isn't it time for a higher zoom level?

2009-11-22 Thread Aun Johnsen
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Igor Brejc igor.br...@gmail.com wrote: Richard, thanks for mentioning Kosmos :) Yes, Kosmos draws OSM data on-the-fly and it supports continuous zoom levels (I've limited it up to zoom level 18 because of some .NET drawing engine problems on higher zooms).

Re: [OSM-talk] Isn't it time for a higher zoom level?

2009-11-22 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 17:38, Aun Johnsen li...@gimnechiske.org wrote: Next step will be to make an openlayer engine that handles a small tile set for puting Guarapari (with various zoom levels) on my homepage. this is simple :) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenLayers_Simple_Example --

Re: [OSM-talk] Isn't it time for a higher zoom level?

2009-11-21 Thread Peter Childs
2009/11/21 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: 2009/11/21 Peter Childs pchi...@bcs.org: If we had an application, that could read osm and render on the fly we could have any zoom level we like, including zoom levels between zoom levels, (ie vector graphics) In theory Potlatch already does

Re: [OSM-talk] Isn't it time for a higher zoom level?

2009-11-21 Thread John Smith
2009/11/21 Peter Childs pchi...@bcs.org: But most people have more CPU than they really know what to do with these days. Actually it's going the other way, mobile phones and netbooks are becoming the most common internet connected devices. ___

Re: [OSM-talk] Isn't it time for a higher zoom level?

2009-11-21 Thread Igor Brejc
Richard, thanks for mentioning Kosmos :) Yes, Kosmos draws OSM data on-the-fly and it supports continuous zoom levels (I've limited it up to zoom level 18 because of some .NET drawing engine problems on higher zooms). There are two drawbacks however: it runs on Windows only and the latest

[OSM-talk] Isn't it time for a higher zoom level?

2009-11-20 Thread Arlindo Pereira
Hi there, looking at the map renders of Rio de Janeiro's downtown, it looks very cluttered, specially with Osmarender. I believe this should happen in many other places. We should not be tagging for the renderer, rather the opposite - fix bugs on the renderer to make it look exactly like you

Re: [OSM-talk] Isn't it time for a higher zoom level?

2009-11-20 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Arlindo Pereira nig...@nighto.net wrote: I understand that that could throw more load on the servers, but maybe we could have an option to render at highlevels only certain areas, such as above a certain point density, or something like that. What do you think

Re: [OSM-talk] Isn't it time for a higher zoom level?

2009-11-20 Thread Roy Wallace
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Arlindo Pereira nig...@nighto.net wrote: So, I was wondering: Isn't it time for a higher zoom level? Yeah, that'd be great, of course :) ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Isn't it time for a higher zoom level?

2009-11-20 Thread Peter Childs
2009/11/20 Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org: On Saturday 21 Nov 2009 4:59:47 am Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Saturday 21 Nov 2009 2:14:35 am Arlindo Pereira wrote: Probably this should be targeted for a more specific list like mapnik-, but I'd like to hear (er, read) what do you think

Re: [OSM-talk] Isn't it time for a higher zoom level?

2009-11-20 Thread John Smith
2009/11/21 Peter Childs pchi...@bcs.org: If we had an application, that could read osm and render on the fly we could have any zoom level we like, including zoom levels between zoom levels, (ie vector graphics) In theory Potlatch already does some of this, buts it written to enter data not

Re: [OSM-talk] Isn't it time for a higher zoom level?

2009-11-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Childs wrote: If we had an application, that could read osm and render on the fly we could have any zoom level we like, including zoom levels between zoom levels, (ie vector graphics) In theory Potlatch already does some of this, buts it written to enter data not render the map,