[OSM-dev] Generalisation

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2018-04-16 10:34 GMT+02:00 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>:

> still AFAIK, 1 and 3 are currently still from natural earth data, the rest
> is from OSM, 2 is a simplfied version of 4, both come from
> openstreetmapdata.org (Christoph and Jochen). Of these, 1-3 are
> containing generalized data.
>


according to Paul Norman in the video recording, also 5 and 6 are
generalized.
Another aspect is filtering: osm-carto removes features when they would be
very small (pixels at a given zoom level) and lead to "noise".

Cheers,
Martin
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