Thanks for the summary. On 16 June 2011 16:32, Rob Truxler <rtrux...@gmail.com> wrote: > geoiq has a nice road layer that is very simple, no icons, just white roads > with legible labels. Depending on your application, the simplicity of the > acetate road layer can be appealing: > http://a3.acetate.geoiq.com/tiles/acetate-roads/z/x/y.png > (45 KB)
This looks quite nice but has problems with text encoding in names (non ascii characters display as boxes, 1 box per UTF8 byte) and data is outdated. I'd also make the highways more transparent and only leave the labels fully opaque. > With the help of Ant and Deborah from MapQuest I was able to get the URL of > mapquest's transparent road layer that's part of their hybrid layer: > http://vtiles01.mqcdn.com/tiles/1.0.0/vy/hyb/z/x/y.(gif|png) > (25 KB) > Note: looking at just a couple of these tiles, I'd recommend using the gif > format since the tiles are about half the file size and the PNG doesn't > appear to have any alpha anti-aliasing This in turn seems to use data from a different source than OSM. Cheers _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
