[OSM-talk] Mapnik at zoom=19

[Ilya Zverev]

Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> +1, the more you zoom in, the more you wish there were highway areas.

No you don't.
http://not.textual.ru/zverik/2/3/mapsurfer-areahighway-spb.png
Highway areas look ugly, even at zoom 18.

Openstreetmap.by also renders those areas:
http://openstreetmap.by/?zoom=17&lat=59.843607&lon=30.32258

This is not a map. It's a poor representation of aerial imagery, bad 
case of wikimapia.

Frederik:
> I fear that OSM is, asymptotically, a paint-it-yourself aerial image.
> With 10cm precision.

Absolutely. But your precision estimate is optimistic, I'd say 2m.


IZ