[Tilesathome] lowzoom tile generation

[Dirk-Lüder Kreie]

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Robert (Jamie) Munro schrieb:
> Raphael Studer wrote:
>
>> On this, or another, list, i've read about the idea to create special
>> 12z tiles where only main routes (highway=primary) and some other
>> important things like big lakes/rivers/cities where rendered.
> 
> They could be uploaded at size 128*128.

yes.

> I think that lowzoom itself should be run on the T at H server. The upload
> stuff should mark which z12 tiles are new since the last time lowzoom
> was run. Then lowzoom could generate all the z11 tiles that have those
> z12 tiles in them, and work it's way up to z1.

Then it would constantly re-render the z0-z5 tiles.
Besides lowzoom being quite RAM and IO intensive, which is a kind of
load we should not put on dev at this time.

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Dirk-Lüder "Deelkar" Kreie
Bremen - 53.0952°N 8.8652°E

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