The german start-up LyrkGeodienste renders HD-Tiles (512x512). https://geodienste.lyrk.de/pakete
2015-01-29 0:20 GMT+01:00 Christoph Hormann <[email protected]>: > On Wednesday 28 January 2015, Michael Meier wrote: >> [...] >> >> However, in addition to the problem of limited resources, I don't >> think the style is ready yet. Though there has been a lot of progress >> lately, the openstreetmap-carto-style has many symbols, and many >> still aren't SVG and thus are not "HD ready" - they look really ugly >> in HD tiles. > > Non-scalable elements in the style are only part of the problem. In > general nearly all maps rely on the rasterization to perform necessary > spatial frequency filtering or in other words: they cannot change > output resolution independent from the level of detail. > > If you for example compare > > https://c.osm.rrze.fau.de/osmhd/6/35/18.png > https://c.osm.rrze.fau.de/tiles/7/71/36.png > > or > > https://c.osm.rrze.fau.de/osmhd/8/133/85.png > https://a.osm.rrze.fau.de/tiles/9/267/171.png > > or > > https://a.osm.rrze.fau.de/osmhd/8/132/75.png > https://c.osm.rrze.fau.de/tiles/9/265/151.png > > You can see that apart from the styling differences between the zoom > levels and the differences in label sizes these look identical. But > for good readability on high resolution devices you do not want the > additional details which are too small to be properly read leading to > mushy results, you want better acuity with the same amount of detail. > > -- > Christoph Hormann > http://www.imagico.de/ > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
