On Mon, 17 May 2010 14:32:34 +0200, Fabio Alessandro Locati <fabioloc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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.
True. It will probably generate more traffic (it will in cases where people zoom in to an area) but 4 times is probably overstating it (I was extrapolation on the "4 times" bit too eagerly). Regards, Maarten _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
