[OSM-talk] international name rendering

[David Earl]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hakan Tandogan [mailto:hakan at gurkensalat.com]
> Sent: 29 May 2007 22:44
> To: David Earl
> Cc: Talk Openstreetmap
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] international name rendering
>
>
> David Earl wrote:
> > some alternate format - perhaps more compact - that javascript can
> > understand), which includes label text and icons. (Do it by
> tile, and take
> > zoom into consideration, not try to render from the database,
> which would be
> > chronically slow; and by tile relative pixel coordinates and absolute
> > positions).
>
> Those layers would have to be sparsely populated with the default "404"
> tile being transparent. The tileGen script would have to dynamically
> determine which tilesets for a given location (say, "tile", "maplint",
> "placenames-en", "placenames-fr", ...) exist.


That wasn't quite what I had in mind, though it is a possibility. I was
thinking that there would only be one layer of text/icon (the icons being
img references of course), and the visibility or otherwise of them being
controlled by style sheets. That way, there's no complicated decisions to
make about what goes on what layer,or what layers to download. The decision
about what to see is done at run time.

David