[OSM-talk] layers and rendering

Thomas Wood grand.edgemaster at gmail.com
Thu Nov 20 19:26:15 GMT 2008


2008/11/20 Matthias Julius <lists at julius-net.net>:
> 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?

OpenLayers uses SVG internally anyway, plus SVG isn't cross-browser
(IE's VML is supported fully by OL)

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

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Thomas Wood
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