[OSM-dev] Creating lowzoom tiles

[Grant Slater]

Brent Easton wrote:
> Could someone please run me through the process of creating and uploading lowzoom tiles? I have the software intalled and configured, but I am having trouble running lowzoom.pl. What exactly should I be using for the x, y and z arguments?
>
> I thought
>
>  lowzoom 3765 2465 11
>
> should do something useful, but I am just getting the usage info. There seems to be virtually no doco for this? 
>
>   

Hope this helps

lowzoom.pl generates z<12

To generate layer 11 thru 6 using layer 12:
./lowzoom.pl xy (x of layer 6) (y of layer 6) 6 12

Which layers to use for what.... 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Tiles%40home/Zoom_levels

Grant