<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com><b><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></b></font><br><br><span>> The rest are now up at <a target="_blank" href="http://cassini.toolserver.org/tile-browse/">http://cassini.toolserver.org/tile-browse/</a></span><br><br>These are great!! <br>(though I think we may just have crashed your renderd with loads of requests)<br><br>I realize this is just a proof of concept, but is this generally your plan right now,<br>to generate tile sets for every language, with caching?<br><br>Since
the underlying geometries are the same for all tiles, and only the text changes,<br>one thought has been to decouple these into different tile sets (geoms and various localised text tiles),<br>which are then combined on the server before pushing out, or on the client in OL.<br><br>This would reduce space requirements, and load on the database.<br>Not sure how much more cost it is to overlay the text on geom tiles, on the server,<br>but there are possibly clever ways to make this efficient.<br><br>There's a need for this on osm.org itself. If an efficient way to localise tiles can be found<br>through your work on wikipedia, it's all very good!<br><br>-Mikel<br></div></div></div></body></html>