[Tilesathome] planet.osm based lowzoom ?

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

> 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.

Yes, this has already been suggested by a few people and I think it  
is a good idea. We'd have to create a new layer for this named  
"lowzoom" or so, where clients can then upload their level-12 tiles  
in the special "prepared for lowzoom" version.

However it will only carry us a few levels up, maybe cover 11, 10 and  
9 or so, but for levels like 7 it would probably be better to have  
something "special".

> 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.

Yes.

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

No.

Bye
Frederik

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