[OSM-dev] Slippy map and zoom

[Artem Pavlenko]

On 15 Feb 2008, at 15:04, Christopher Schmidt wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 02:55:11PM +0000, Tom Hughes wrote:
>> In message <20080215145149.GA12082 at alta.metacarta.com>
>>         Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:06:32PM +0000, Tom Hughes wrote:
>>>
>>>>> If this was possible, I guess the browser could also emulate finer
>>>>> grades (half-levels) of zooming.  It would make for a less bumpy
>>>>> user experience.
>>>>
>>>> That is also something that the next release of OL is expected to
>>>> be able to do I believe.
>>>
>>> Not for OSM tiles: fractional zoom is only for services that allow
>>> arbitrary bbox requests.
>>
>> I was interpreting that as asking for animated zoom, where you
>> have apparent fractional zooms as it zooms in. I might have been
>> reading it wrong though.
>
> Hm, I took it to mean zooming to scales/zoom levels other than
> factor-of-two magnitude changes.


Animated zoom/pan would be very nice feature to have in OL.
See http://www.kosmosnimki.ru for examle
Artem
>
> Regards,
> -- 
> Christopher Schmidt
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