I assume because 18 is what is available in most of the world and most people prefer to be able to overzoom aerial imagery a little instead of getting blank tiles. What would be slick is if the blank tiles could be automatically detected and then previous imagery overzoomed instead of displaying the blank tiles.
Toby On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Nathan Edgars II <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Toby Murray <[email protected]> wrote: >> Have you tried bumping up the "zoom" setting in the imagery plugin >> preferences? The setting is in tile zoom level. I think by default it >> only goes up to z18 but I have been able to bump it up to z21 in some >> areas. Of course if you set it higher than the available imagery you >> will eventually start getting blank tiles. > > Ah, there's the trick I was missing. I wonder why it's not set higher > by default? It doesn't seem to work for Yahoo in the linked area, but > that's not a big deal because Bing is faster and just a month or so > earlier here. > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
