On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Sebastian Spaeth wrote: > 2) I fail to see how a separate caption layer makes captions more pretty > in itself :-). What's the "more generic approach" you suggest? Rendering > captions with mapnik or something?
When downloading the whole world and rendering tiles based on that, these tile-crossing problems of the name-suppression should vanish (or at least be reduced a lot :-) > 3) People still need a "complete" layer including captions to download > for mapping applications that don't support layered tiles (eg > maemo-mapper). So we'd need a caption and a captionless layer for z13-17 > (we have captionless z12 already), I'm afraid we'd run out of disk space > quickly (or we'd need to merge caption/captionless layers dynamically on > download). If that were possible, I am all for making the default layer > captionless and provide a separate caption layer. Making it dynamically should not be a problem. When properly cached, then also CPU power should be no problem. > 4) I'd like i18n'ed captions. My only concern is that we need a) more > disk space than we currently have (this might be solved somewhat when we > move to a new server) and b) we need to add more special cases to the > map serving plugin to serve transparent tiles when there is nothing > (should be possible). At the beginning I would not think providing i18n captions is a good idea from t...@h, but captionless tiles allow others to make such stuff. Also I think instead of rendering captions at all, the captions should be passes as position+direction+text information and rendered when displaying. But that is probably a future project :-) Ciao -- http://www.dstoecker.eu/ (PGP key available) _______________________________________________ Tilesathome mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tilesathome
