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

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On 2/23/07, Artem Pavlenko <artem at pavlenko.uklinux.net> wrote:
> 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?

How does the information in the shapefile get to the user's display?
It has to rendered somewhere... The shapefiles for coastlines are
huge.

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