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

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,
 > Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
 >
 >>> http://fred.dev.openstreetmap.org/lowzoom/
 >>
 >>I have updated these tiles with current data. (I had somehow lost the
 >>code that produced the tiles and had to reverse engineer my way back
 >>from the old tiles... the year-old tiles are still available from the
 >>layer switcher.)
 >

On 07/04/2013 02:00 AM, Tirkon wrote:
> I am not sure: Do you want to replace rhe lowzoom levels at osm.org?

I think the lowzoom levels at osm.org look very bland and my approach 
attempts to fix that, trying not to be a cartographically solid map (for 
that, MapQuest has done an excellent job I think) but instead 
highlighting where OSM has data and where it hasn't.

I don't have a particular agenda about replacing the lowzoom tiles on 
osm.org; if someone wants me to install my process on the OSM tile 
server I can do that but if most people are happy with what we've got 
then I have no problem with that.

> At present the shown names seem to be taken from the place tag.

[...]

> The first priority for rendering could be the admin level.

Certainly an idea worth pursuing, however some magic would have to be 
applied to match place tags (usually nodes - they will have a population 
or capital tag) with admininistrative boundaries (that have an admin 
level but neither "capital" nor population info).

Bye
Frederik

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