[OSM-dev] Shaded relief in OSM

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Dec 5, 2007 4:21 PM, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:
> I would think the obvious thing to do is to change our current
> layers to have a transparent background, then we can get OL to
> render them over other things if we want - be that relief tiles
> like this or OAM imagery or whatever.

IIRC, the reason this isn't done is because some popular browsers
don't support transparent PNGs. And if you hack them so they do it
becomes unbearably slow.

I can't say for sure, I don't run one of these browsers...

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/