[Tilesathome] t at h, my plans/priorities

[80n]

On 8/5/07, OJW <streetmap at blibbleblobble.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Sunday 05 August 2007 13:09, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> > Yes, I think that would work well. However 80n has recently presented is
> > OsmXAPI (or whatever it was called) which might open the route to even
> > better results at least for the medium levels 7-11...
>
> Do we have a Mercator pre-processor for OSM files yet?  If we can get one
> of
> those, then lowzoom tiles can be rendered individually (with proper
> decisions
> about what to show at each level) -- the only reason we're stitching z12
> tiles together at the moment is that large-area tiles would show-up the
> disparity between osmarender's map projection and that of the slippy-map.
>
> (the other reason we stich together z12 was the lack of a filterable
> large-bbox OSM API server, which 80n has just solved... although this will
> have to be weekly updates due to the planet.osm connection)


We can still stitch together z12 tiles if necessary, but use different
styling and use OSM Zappy to get place names that span way more than one z12
tile.


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