[OSM-talk] Isn't it time for a higher zoom level?

[John Smith]

2009/11/21 Peter Childs <pchilds at bcs.org>:
> If we had an application, that could read osm and render on the fly we
> could have any zoom level we like, including zoom levels between zoom
> levels, (ie vector graphics)
>
> In theory Potlatch already does some of this, buts it written to enter
> data not render the map, so its not the purpose it was meant for.
>
> Such an application could do lots of extra stuff such having a
> plugable coordinate system, (so we can have better maps of the poles
> etc)
>
> Just wish I had time to do something. (Which I don't)

Someone already did this using javascript...

However it takes a lot of CPU to render on the fly like that...