[OSM-talk] Fetch whole relation when parts of it are in bbox

[Matthias Julius]

Thom Shannon <thom at glow-internet.com> writes:

> Here is a related question, the tile directly below the problem tile
> on your map renders with an entirely green background. The edge of the
> forest doesn't appear to enter that tile. What does the API return to
> allow it to do that?

At least the t at h renderers fetch a larger bounding box than the tile
they are rendering. This is primarily to not cut off names that are
atached to nodes near the tile. This way also ways get caught if they
have a node in the extended bounding box.

I guess mapnik is doing the same.

Matthias