[Tilesathome] East Anglia has faded

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Andre Hinrichs wrote:

>> The area to the east of London appears faded at some zoom levels.  See
>> http://www.informationfreeway.org/?lat=51.651947636932924&lon=0.29965815666
>> 09159&zoom=10&layers=B0000F000F
>>
>> Is this intentional or has something gone wrong?
>
> The server side rendering of lowzoom tiles (zoomlevel < 12) seem to be
> different than the client side rendering of lowzoom. When I rendered lowzoom
> the first time I saw the same effect. Streets are more thin and names are
> more gray. Don't know why there is a difference. Hope, that the difference
> will fade awaw during development and hope that the more thin roads and the
> black names will make it.

I took the lowzoom script as base for lowzoom in the client. This does 
some overlapping of the tiles which probably causes this fading effect. 
Don't know what the server does, as I never had a look at its code.

Thought it should not affect names, as these are overlayed. Maybe also 
different means of overlay handling are used in server and client.

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