[Tilesathome] Any objections

[Sebastian Spaeth]

Knut Arne Bjørndal wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:42:53AM -0000, Ed Loach wrote:
>> To me rendering pubs at zoom level 16 as well as zoom level 17 should I get time to look at the relevant files (which won't be today)?
> 
> I think that will make a mess of many places where there are many pubs
> (and other features) in an area.

I think we had this before and people complained that Barcelona downtown
became unreadable due to all the pubs, etc.

> To solve the issue of what zoom level features should appear on in a
> way that will work both for sparse and dense areas we really need a
> way to render features only if the area is sparse enough - so that a
> hamlet with a few houses around a pub will get the pub rendered on
> maybe z14, while a pub in the middle of london gets suppressed until
> z17 or even 18 (if we ever figure out a way to sanely store z18)

Isn't this possible with the   horizontalProximity="0.8"
verticalProximity="0.6"
rules already now? Only disafvantage is that it will ambiguously
suppress *some* pubs.

Pubs on the other hand would be a nice candidate for a POI overlay layer
that can be switched on/off. We could afford some more clutter then.

spaetz