[OSM-talk] layers and rendering

[Matthias Julius]

Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es> writes:

> El Jueves, 20 de Noviembre de 2008, David Earl escribió:
> [...]
>> Basically: pre-render highways, areas etc as at present. But pre-render
>> POI icons and captions as absolutely positioned HTML elements (text and
>> small img's) within tile size clip areas, and overlay the PNG tiles with
>> these HTML tiles [...]
>
> /methinks KML tiles would work better (and would require less modifications 
> from OpenLayers)

How about SVG tiles?

But, wouldn't any vector tiles be problematic with elements
(expecially captions) crossing tile boarders?

Matthias