On 13 Jan 2013, at 22:00, Dirk Stöcker <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Jan 2013, Alex Barth wrote:
> 
>> High loads are accepted, yes. The coverage is down to ZL 17 for US. The 
>> world wide coverage is Landsat right now, which is also default. Over the 
>> first half of the year we're gradually going to improve high ZL coverage in 
>> Europe and the rest of the world.
> 
> The Landsat default is more historic than really useful nowadays. It was 
> useful to get coastlines in far north and south.
> 
> Other opinions? I neither have strong opinion for nor against making that 
> default. Currently it seems very US centric, but probably making it default 
> is ok.

Enable by default for the US, wait for other regions until they have usable 
high res imagery to z17. I'd also recommend improving the 404 tile to have some 
text to make clear that it's simply no tile available at that zoom level and to 
zoom out.

Shaun


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