[OSM-talk] Mapnik Lowzoom TIles - proof of concept

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 03/12/2012 08:56 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> There's nothing keeping one from applying the Tiles at Home lowzoom process
> to a slight variation of our standard Mapnik style however, and out
> comes this (for zoom levels 0-8; from z9 on, the standard Mapnik style
> looks fine):
>
> http://fred.dev.openstreetmap.org/lowzoom/

I have uploaded a new version of these tiles, exaggerating the linework 
so that now even areas with no landcover import but a dense road network 
(e.g. South America) look "busy" on the map.

I think this comes pretty close to the Tiles at Home lowzoom tiles now. I 
might still have to do something about the country borders and labels.

I would like to repeat that this map is not intended to be particularly 
pretty; it is intended to be something like an "index" to OpenStreetMap 
data, something that tells you that there's something to discover if you 
zoom in on a particular location.

Bye
Frederik

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