[Tilesathome] Tile retries

Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org
Fri Sep 28 18:54:56 BST 2007


Hi,

> > if you split a z12 tile in 4 z13 tiles you will get into trouble with
> > all kinds of overflowing names (eg city names) and areas which are
> > larger than the tile, eg large forest areas.
> 
> Could we download 1 level 12 tile from the api, then render it as usual
> to an svg, then post-process the SVG into 4 level 13 tiles if it's over
> a certain size before passing it to Inkscape? The post-processor would
> be able to include all the road names etc. that might overlap the edges,
> but leave out all the other elements.

Could do but I suspect that once you have an engine complex enough to
understand how to split the SVG, that engine is not far away from
Inkscape ;-)

Bye
Frederik

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