> If you > were zoomed out enough to see a whole country, it would have to > download *all* of the data for the country (hundreds of megabytes). > Make your "direct" app see all of spain and wait for a 533 MB download > (which would take the server significant resources and time to > generate and compress) before anything appears...
Whoops. Yeah, it's right, that's not a smart move indeed > What you can do is create vector tiles from the openstreetmap data, > with reduced detail at reduced zooms, etc. for example only having > borders and no streets or points of interest when you're looking at > entire countries, and then render *that* with whatever style. But no > matter what, you have to put *some* styling decisions on the > generation of the vector tiles, mainly what data may be visible at > what zooms, eg. to stop residential streets from being on the z2 > tiles. That sounds like an interesting idea, yeah. If the Of course you have to do *some* styling, that's part of the job of the application, I guess? The idea is to let the application plug in different predefined styles or even let the user do it (i.e. set symbols for POIs, or define that a street (way) of type XYZ is shown as a line with color A, width B, etc. etc. Kinda a “make your own map style” tool as well. xD I just noticed the application I want to see suddenly sounds really sophisticated. xD It does not seem such an application exists right now. At least nobody could point me to one so far. :-( _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
