On 2010-07-14, Stephan Knauss wrote: > Sebastian Spaeth wrote: > No one stops us from having our own mapnik style and rendering. > Wikimedia Toolserver provides own rendering styles. I have my own server > running an excerpt with my own style.
Right. t...@h precedes wikimedia toolserver, although that is not an excuse to keep t...@h alive. I still like it, it is much easier to set up and get people familiar with all the technology. Call it nostalgy if you like :-). > The only "advantage" I see is the machine can be a lot smaller compared > to a mapnik renderer. That is an advantage, yes. > I would love to see some areas rendered in Z19 or even Z20. > Could we set up tah to render those zoom levels in some predefined areas? > Similar to aerial images in yahoo. Some areas have higher resolution > images available. There are a couple of problems: - Rendering the whole z12 area in z19 or z20 is going to overburden most of the clients. z17 brings already many clients on its knees, especially in the "interesting" areas. This is solvable by changes in the client to not always render the whole z12 area in one go. But in needs someone who implments it. -Second, a tileset file can contain more than 6 levels, but the apache module that serves the files has been hardcoded to 6. We would need to improve the mod_tah module, and to be honest my C skills are not up to par to fudge with an performance critical apache module. :-). Help is welcome. > >> We should have a closer look into SVG-Fonts. I believe this can lead to a > >> more uniform font rendering across all clients. > > Yes, that would be nice to have, but is afaik non-trivial. > > What is the specific problem that needs to be solved? I just stumbled > over another font problem some minutes ago... See my other mail. .svg files becoming much more complex leading to even more inkscape RAM usage? Someone implementing SVG fonts in the client (we are very short on client developers). Sebastian _______________________________________________ Tilesathome mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tilesathome
