[Talk-GB] What is a residential area?

seirra blake sophietheopossum at yandex.com
Wed May 8 10:08:56 UTC 2019


ah, I see what you're saying. so one that is geared towards the public 
may have completely different priorities etc.. I guess it's something 
I'll understand better over time

On 5/8/19 10:25 AM, David Woolley wrote:
> On 08/05/2019 02:18, seirra blake wrote:
>> is there any articles on what does/doesn't get used on particular 
>> zoom levels? just figure it wouldn't hurt to double check my general 
>> understanding
>
> That assumes that zoom level has any meaning to the tool being used to 
> access the map.
>
> For slippy maps, it depends on the  particular slippy map and will 
> change from time to time, depending on the target audience and 
> judgements about the level of clutter in the rendered image.
>
> The only real way of finding out is to look at the code used.  As far 
> as I can remember, for Mapnik, as used in the default slippy map on 
> www.openstreetmap.org, it is quite easy to see the rules for when 
> things get rendered.
>
> The target audience for default slippy map is mappers, not the the 
> general public.
>
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