[Tilesathome] POI layer?

[80n]

On 9/20/07, Knut Arne Bjørndal <bob+osm at cakebox.net> wrote:
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> 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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 :)
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> 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...


Can OL display street names along the path of a road?  I don't think it is
that clever is it?


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