[Tilesathome] Captionless tiles and forest

[80n]

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Maciek Kaliszewski <mkalkal at interia.pl>
wrote:

> Hi
> Why areas tagged with natural=wood are not rendered on captionless tiles ?
> Have a look:
>
> http://tah.openstreetmap.org/Tiles/info.php?x=2311&y=1312&z=12&layer=captionless
> http://tah.openstreetmap.org/Tiles/info.php?x=2311&y=1312&z=12&layer=tile
> Does this mean that forest will not appear on tiles zoom 11-  ?
>

Yes this is deliberate.  The intention is to emphasis the road network at
low zoom levels.  Large expanses of landuse, particularly woodland tends to
drown out the detail.

Arguably woodland / parks / etc should be rendered for a few levels below
z12, but this would require a second captionless layer at z9 or 10.  Doing
this gets us into the performance problems that the previous lowzoom
solution had.  If/when we find a way to generate detailed tiles for z9 then
it would be possible to add woodland back in for z10 and 11.

Unfortunately its a matter of trade-offs and compromises.

80n




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