[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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