[Tilesathome] Colour resolution

[Matthias Julius]

Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> writes:

> Mapnik's use of 8bit images is not without problems; sometimes colours
> look wrong and people have complained about this from time to time.

I think the use of 8bit images is only sensible with a globally
defined colour palette. If the renderer uses any random palette than
colours on different tiles can be different leading to above
complaints.

Matthias