> 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. Mathematically speaking is true, but maybe is not true in real world. I have seen a lot of times people not using the last level of zoom (how many times you have to see a whole road or even more then one road? ) therefore the traffic will not be 4 times more. Also, even considering '4 times more' as true, we have to consider that is only 4 times more the traffic generated by the zoom level 18, not the whole OSM traffic. I think it would very important to know the actual saturation of processors, hd and traffic to be able to give a though point of view over adding a new zoom level.
my two cents, Fabio -- Fabio Alessandro Locati Home: Segrate, Milan, Italy (GMT +1) Phone: +39-328-3799681 MSN/Jabber/E-Mail: fabioloc...@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: 5525 8555 213C 19EB 25F2 A047 2AD2 BE67 0F01 CA61 Involved in: KDE, OpenStreetMap, Ubuntu, Wikimedia _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
