On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 02:04:37PM +0100, Hakan Tandogan wrote: > spaetz wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 12:18:57PM +1100, Brent Easton wrote: > > > >> I believe there is nothing wrong, that's just the way the new lowzoom > >> works. > >> The amount of data downloaded in a z8 tile can be huge for areas around > >> well mapped cities. > > > > As the guy who initially did the "new lowzoom" I would like to comment on > > the situation. It was an experiment as I was annoyed by unreadable text at > > low zoom levels and want to play with Etienne's osmxapi. However given the > > scaling problems we see, I am convinced that this is the wrong approach and > > should be turned off until we have something feasable. > > No, please don't turn off the lowzoom rendering. The readable place > names on lower zoom levels (say, z8 or so) are simply too useful, > especially for larger countries which consist of multiple z8 tiles. > > People can already tell the server that their machines are not capable > of rendering lowzoom tiles. Perhaps we could even use the server > feedback to automatically determine people who can render lowzooms.
*No* Machine that I'vve ever found is capable of rendering all lowzoom tiles: these things take 16GB+ of RAM! There's simply no way that the current stylesheets create a solution which works. Until that works, the server isn't giving out lowzoom tiles. Some other solution needs to exist first. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ Tilesathome mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tilesathome
