[OSM-talk] Extra zoom level needed?

[John F. Eldredge]

One thing that has frustrated me with the current tiling system is that most POIs are only visible if you zoom in all the way, and can only see an area 50 meters or so across.  This rather limits their usefulness.  It would also help if you could click on a POI, or hover your mouse above it, and see the values of more tags.  A restaurant POI, for example, could tell you the hours it is open and what sort of food it serves, assuming these tags had been set.

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John F. Eldredge -- john at jfeldredge.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Marsden <eric.marsden at free.fr>
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 22:15:10 
To: <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Extra zoom level needed?

>>>>> "js" == John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> writes:

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

  This would require work, yes. But even the Mapnik rendering has
  discontinuities between zoom levels: for instance between z8 (no
  landuse rendering) and z9 (landuses such as forest are rendered) there
  is a significant step (very visible in France for instance, where we
  have good landuse data imported from CLC).

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Eric Marsden


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