Sebastian Spaeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Matthias Julius wrote: >> Sebastian Spaeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Pubs on the other hand would be a nice candidate for a POI overlay layer >>> that can be switched on/off. We could afford some more clutter then. >> >> And ideally this would not be a tiled layer. Instead the client >> applications would download pubs from XAPI and display an icon with >> caption on the map for each of them. Can OpenLayers do such a thing? >> It would be quite insane to try to host tiled layers for each POI type >> (pubs, restaurants, fast food places, gas stations, post boxes, ...). > > Yes, one layer per item would be insane. Having one switchable POI layer > for all kinds of POIs though would be quite feasible. Of course, more > control would be nice, theoretically....
Maybe POI layers could be rendered in realtime on a dedicated POI tile server. It should be a lot less demanding than mapnik. Matthias _______________________________________________ Tilesathome mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tilesathome
