[OSM-newbies] svg output

[Andre Engels]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com>
wrote, quoting some further unspecified 'Frederik':

> MilesTogoe wrote:
>> we went to download a map of the world at a low zoom level 2 (which just
>> showed continents and most country boundaries) yet the download size was
>> huge - there wasn't any buttons or options to reduce the data levels -
>> personally I thnk based on the scale, the data should be reduced
>> accordingly
>
> No, it isn't. You get the raw data in full resolution. OpenStreetMap's
> "core competency" is maps with lots of detail, not simplified maps of
> the whole world. If you want the latter, you are much better off with
> using the public domain data from http://www.naturalearthdata.com/ or,
> even simpler, one of the public domain choices from
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Blank_maps.

Note that it's also not Wikipedia's core competency, within the
Wikimedia family that would be Wikimedia Commons, see:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Blank_maps


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André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com