On Mon, 17 May 2010 13:02:53 +0100, Gregory <nomoregra...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Now a lot of places are full of pro-mappers, we are doing house numbers, > shops, football pitch lines... Do we need an extra zoom level? > For example I'm learning to add buildings/shops and > see http://osm.org/go/euuOoC_pJ-- [1] You can only see about a third of > the shop/business names because of avoiding overlapping text. Potentially > businesses might start deleting shop names around them to ensure their > shop is displayed, or thinking up other 'tagging/mapping for the > renderer'. > The increased load(viewing tiles and creating tiles) is a point, how > much of a point?
Adding a zoomlevel adds 4 tiles for each tile in the previous zoomlevel. You'll go from 91 billion tiles to 366 billion. This meaning you need 4 times the load to generate, 4 times the storage to hold them, 4 times the traffic to display them. Regards, Maarten _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
