[OSM-dev] UK coastline borked

[Yann]

On 8/19/07, spaetz <osm at sspaeth.de> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 06:28:48PM +0200, Jon Bright wrote:
> > > - I think texts that are displayed but too small to be read should be
> > > hidden (look at London)
>
> I was concidering dropping the texts of towns and suburbs at z8. Of course
> one can't read that. However, I kind of like the busy crammed look that it
> gives, because if you leave that away, London becomes just one word on the
> map.


Maybe it would make sense to tag towns with an approximation of their
population? That way we could emphasize bigger cities... and on low zoom
level tiles, say for example "display all towns > 50k people"...
And with wikipedia's data that should be very easy to do :)

Yann
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