[OSM-dev] Do we need world boundaries for small areas?

Parveen Arora mail at parveenarora.in
Mon Jun 20 15:14:46 BST 2011


Hello Everyone,

One thing I know about world boundaries is that Mapnik uses prepared
files to generate coastlines and ocean for small scale maps. This is
faster than reading the entire database to render zoom levels from
zero to nine.
But If I have to generate tiles for a small area or let us say for a
city that does not include world boundaries, In that case do we need
them?

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Parveen Arora
www.parveenarora.in
E-Mail: mail at parveenarora.in



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