On 2010-07-31, Matthias Julius wrote:
> "Sebastian Spaeth" <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > On 2010-07-16, Matthias Julius wrote:
> >> It probaly would improve the appearence of the low zoom levels if we
> >> were rendering a few more captionless-lowzoom layers like
> >> captionless-z6 which would be meant to be scaled down to z6 for
> >> example.  This would allow to remove more details from the lower zoom
> >> levels.
> >
> > Yes, that would be nice, but are current clients up to notch to actually
> > render a z6 area containing .osm data for that area? I have difficulties
> > just rendering such an area containing the captions... :-).
> 
> No, I meant to have them render z12 sized tiles optimized to be stitched
> together to a z6 tile.
> 
> "Otpimized" means with styles appropriate for the respective low zoom
> levels.  There is no point in rendering secondary roads for z6.

Right, someone simply needs to produce stylesheets for that. I am not
sure how much storage space it would consume for some marginal benefit
(I don't think the current z6 looks very bad). I'd rather invest the
disk space in a cool captionless layer that can serve as a base for the
language overlay layers.

Sebastian

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