On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Sebastian Spaeth <[email protected]>wrote:
> Jan Jesse wrote: > > > > Hi > > > >> In zoom 6 to 11 the tiles of Germany are in a very bad state. > >> Some tiles are completely empty and say to be of "Unknown Type" in > >> openlayers. > > > > Just now I tried it again and the problem seems not to be solved? > > > > Is anyone working on it? > > There is no procedure to automatically create those caption layers. > Someone needs to feel responsible to either create and upload them, > currently. > > This is how a stock t...@h client is able to render the caption layer for a > low zoom tileset: > > ./tilesGen.pl xy 34 21 6 caption > > which then needs uploading with > > ./tilesGen.pl upload > > Next time that low zoom is stitched it will take the new captions into > account. > > > This is still not optimal. As the supression of labels is based on > proximity of labels we always will get a different selection of captions > for each tileset. The problem gets worse with fewer margin around the > tileset and would be eliminated if we could use the whole world as data > set for our rendering. > I would love to download the caption data from XAPI locally and point > the t...@h client to use that local osm file as datasource for all the > caption tiles, but the client is not capable of doing that. > > Downloading the whole world for each tileset is out of question, of course. > Is it? What captions are you currently downloading? Cities, towns, villages? You can grab up to 10 x 10 degrees from XAPI which might be enough to reduce all but the most pathological edge case. If that isn't enough I could remove that bounding limit for just these tags until we find out what is really needed. 80n
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