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

Artem Pavlenko artem at pavlenko.uklinux.net
Fri Feb 23 13:27:30 GMT 2007


Martijn,
(Assuming you're talking about storing coastline as a separate set of tiles)
Why do we need land/seatiles when this can be solved with one shapefile?

Cheers,
Artem

On Friday 23 February 2007 12:42, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> 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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