On 4/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Frederik Ramm</b> <<a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org">frederik@remote.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br><br>> Perhaps there should be a secondary version of each z12 tile that<br>> is used just as the source for lowzoom.<br><br>I should've read that mail before writing mine ;-)</blockquote><div><br>I'm glad to see that others have been thinking along the same lines. Your post was more detailed and explains it better than I did.
<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> If the main OSM server is unable to do this then a separate mini-<br>> database of just these nodes could be created from
planet.osm and<br>> interrogated separately. They wont change very much so having them<br>> updated once a week wouldn't be a big problem.<br><br>I can imagine such a database being put to a lot of other intersting
<br>uses as well.</blockquote><div><br>Try this as a proof of concept:<br><br><a href="http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.3/map?bbox=-0.5,51.5,0.5,52">http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.3/map?bbox=-0.5,51.5,0.5,52
</a><br><br>It will filter and return just those nodes that have a k="place" tag.<br><br>Caveat: this is running off a database built from a planet.osm that is several weeks old, and it's running on a very small box, but it will accept larger bboxes than the main OSM server.
<br> </div>80n<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Bye<br>Frederik<br><br>--<br>Frederik Ramm ## eMail <a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org">
frederik@remote.org</a> ## N49°00.09' E008°23.33'<br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>