[OSM-talk] i18n-rich areas on the map

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:34 PM, 80n<80n80n at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tiles at Home uses this technique of a basemap with no captions and a text
> layer  for lowzoom tiles (z1 through z6) .  Currently they are combined on
> the server to create a composite image using some GD library I think.  This
> seems to works very well and avoids duplicating the most compute intensive
> part of generating a map tile.

Yeah it would be neat to render a captionless layer in mapnik and then
overlay text on it.

Can mapnik support that? I'd have thought adding any sort of text to
the map might have implications for the rendering itself.