[Tilesathome] planet.osm based lowzoom ?

[Matthias Julius]

Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> writes:

> It would be possible to have t at h clients filter the OSM data they  
> download using a "lowzoom filter", resulting in a (likely very small)  
> parcel of lowzoom-relevant data inside the level_12 tile being  
> rendered. This data set could be uploaded to a lowzoom server. The  
> lowzoom server would be primed using the planet file once a week, but  
> would use these messages received from t at h clients for incremental  
> updates, thus offering better data than just using the planet file.

The client could also render "lowzoom z12 tiles".  That would be z12
tiles rendered with a special style sheet to make the tiles better
suited for shrinking.  Of course, this is not the perfect solution,
but ist should be an improvement over the current way of creating
lowzoom tiles and it should be easy to implement.

Does the OSM API allow to specify which type of data one wants to
download in the bounding box?

Matthias