[OSM-dev] [Talk-GB] Automating Freemap tile rendering

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On 2/20/07, James Mastros <james at mastros.biz> wrote:
> Are the various work-arounds to make IE work with transparent PNGs not
> applicable to this case?  For that matter, I'm missing some context.
> IIRC, the failure mode of transparent PNGs is that they show whatever
> color the RGB bits of the color value are.  Is this likely to be a
> problem for regular users?  It means you can't use it as an overlay,
> but if we don't render as transparent PNG, that's still the case.

I don't know about workarounds, but for the proposed land/seatiles it
just means they won't see the coastline. If someone does the work to
merge the tiles into one set they will, otherwise...

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