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

[Steve Bennett]

>
> 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 love it. Australia is the sort of place where European defaults
often don't work well, because our population density is so low. At
zoom 7, the state of Victoria looks really empty:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-37.25&lon=145.42&zoom=7&layers=M

The lowzoom mode fills in the space better, but what it really needs
is more place names (for our case, anyway). At that zoom, the whole
state only shows 8 place names. Google Maps has dozens at a similar
level, maybe more than 50

Steve.