"Sebastian Spaeth" <[email protected]> writes: > On 2010-07-31, Matthias Julius wrote: >> "Sebastian Spaeth" <[email protected]> writes: >> >> > On 2010-07-16, Matthias Julius wrote: >> >> It probaly would improve the appearence of the low zoom levels if we >> >> were rendering a few more captionless-lowzoom layers like >> >> captionless-z6 which would be meant to be scaled down to z6 for >> >> example. This would allow to remove more details from the lower zoom >> >> levels. >> > >> > Yes, that would be nice, but are current clients up to notch to actually >> > render a z6 area containing .osm data for that area? I have difficulties >> > just rendering such an area containing the captions... :-). >> >> No, I meant to have them render z12 sized tiles optimized to be stitched >> together to a z6 tile. >> >> "Otpimized" means with styles appropriate for the respective low zoom >> levels. There is no point in rendering secondary roads for z6. > > Right, someone simply needs to produce stylesheets for that. I am not > sure how much storage space it would consume for some marginal benefit > (I don't think the current z6 looks very bad).
No, not *very* bad. ;-) Actually, it doesn't look bad at all - just a bit crowded. > I'd rather invest the disk space in a cool captionless layer that > can serve as a base for the language overlay layers. > > Sebastian > > _______________________________________________ > Tilesathome mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tilesathome _______________________________________________ Tilesathome mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tilesathome
