[Tilesathome] POI layer?

[Knut Arne Bjørndal]

On 20. sep. 2007, at 21.28, 80n wrote:
> As I understand it, the size of the png files is somewhat  
> proportional to the content.  So removing POIs from one tileset and  
> creating a second tileset probably wouldn't make much net  
> difference to the overall disk space or bandwidth usage.
>
> I've been thinking about doing something similar for the text  
> caption layer so that the use can choose whether to view, say,  
> english street names or arabic street names.
>
> There could potentially be a need for a lot of different layers,  
> but if the space consumption is not great then I don't really see  
> any problem with this - lets have lots and lots of layers :)

What about not rendering stuff like POIs and captions to pngs, but to  
some kind of text that OpenLayers can parse and display directly?  
Then we can even do things like display captions only on mouseover or  
whatever...

I believe kleptog is talking with crschmidt about getting OL to do this.

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