[Tilesathome] tiles at home = mission impossible?

[Norbert Hoffmann]

Frederik Ramm wrote:

>* download z8-z11 tiles containing the rendered z12 tile
>* scale the z12-captionless tile to 128x128/64x64/32x32/16x16 and
>  place it into the right spot on all these tiles
>* upload modified z8-z11 tiles
>
>Is that correct?

Yes, that's the idea.

>I have made some blunders in my previous postings because I wasn't up
>to date, so this time I'll ask first:
>
>Do we already, or will we soon have, client-side merging of
>captionless tiles with captions, or is this not on the cards? Because
>it seems to me that above idea would break if someone, say, put a new
>city name on a z12 tile which would then change a rather big portion
>of the corresponding z8-11 tiles and not only a small area?

Perhaps creating the captions then better were to be done with a different
process (captions are quite static and a client for lowzoom could be very
simple without having to generate them themselves). And problems with
captions on borders between tiles generated at different times exist now
and will still exist then.

Norbert