Thanks for the suggestions, I couldn't agree more for static rendering. However this approach has some massive draw backs in terms of performance. Any suggestions in this region?
Li. On 01/11/2012, at 5:13 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > What do you guys think? > > It's non trivial to do it this way, but: > Define a relationship between zoom level and number of ways/nodes within the > bounding box > Sort the ways in a weighted fashion - roads first, land boundaries second, etc > Zoom level max, with 10 nodes to render: well, that should likely render > everything > Zoom level max - 1 with 1 billion nodes to render - roads only > To actually set up the balance between zoom and what to render would be hard, > but I think that's a better approach than render hints. Alternatively, after > implementing it, you could add a 'render weighting/interest' attribute to a > lot of ways, which would be like a render hint but also suitable for other > purposes - ie: routing or search. > >
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