Based on Frederik lowzoom idea, I started improving the low zooms on our OSM-FR style...
Here is zoom 7 (others are in the render_list queue): http://tile.openstreetmap.fr/?zoom=7&lat=46.88069&lon=3.13697&layers=0000B0FFF Here is how I did it: - modify my OSM-FR to remove all labels and boundary at zoom 8 (which was already using landcover/landuse), - generate 4 large PNG using nik2img - combine them and generate one large tiled z8.tif using gdal_translate (133MB, if you want to play with it I can share the result) - create a very simple stylesheet to test using this z8.tif as raster, then add placenames and boundaries It's a work in progress. I'm currently merging this lowzoom stylesheet to my main OSM-FR style sheet. I've not played with imagemagick, it is just a lanczos downscaling made by mapnik. Label ordering is handled by using the place=* tag, then the population=* tag so large cities are placed first. The placename density is limited using text-min-distance. -- Christian Quest - OpenStreetMap France Un nouveau serveur pour OSM... http://donate.osm.org/server2013/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
