[Openstreetmap] more distributed ideas

[SteveC]

* @ 03/02/06 10:22:26 PM simon at zymurgy.org wrote:
> Look at how others to this:
> 
> At large scales, only motorways are shown, zoom in a bit and you get 
> dual carriageways and then primary roads, then zoom in more, and you get 
> secondary roads. Zoom further you get minor roads and residential 
> streets. Zoom right in and you can see back alleys and paths.

Yup, but the others are pre-generated tiles. Which is totally fine, but
then we need to buy lots of disk drives.

> So, in order to achieve this, we'd need the API to support selecting 
> only a subset of segment class names within a bounding area, and a 
> mapserver that knows about this. While you're at it, you can make the 
> mapserver render the classes differently.

There's another way to do this. Space Syntax would let us magically find
different classifications of streets but AFAIK needs the streets API to
be there first. Coming soon!

have fun,

SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/