[OSM-talk] Extra zoom level needed?

John Smith deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com
Mon May 17 20:53:26 BST 2010


On 18 May 2010 05:44, Eric Marsden <eric.marsden at free.fr> wrote:
>  I wonder if it would be sensible to switch to a vector-based rendering
>  system for high zoom levels, as implemented at http://cartagen.org
>  (using HTML5 canvas). This would allow "arbitrarily" high zoom levels.
>  Tile-based rendering performs much better at low zoom levels, but I
>  suspect that vector-based rendering would work better above z17.

I wonder how consistent you could get the look and feel between the 2
systems, otherwise it might cause more confusion than anything.




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