[Tilesathome] LowZoom

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Dirk Stöcker wrote:

>>> Nah, that is not right. It has the handling of all layers hardcoded.
>>> Not the layers itself. The whole processing is layer independend. And this
>>> hardcoding is required as contrary to the normal layers the lowzoom
>>> requires different handling for different layers.
>>>
>>> We can move the logic into the config, but is this really worth the
>>> effort?
>>
>> I think so.  I have made some effort to remove layer names and URLs
>> from the code and was a little bit disappointed to see "caption" show
>> up again.
>>
>> If another layer someday needs this kind of special treatment someone
>> has to look through the code and find all references to "caption".
>
> I moved the layer names to layers.conf. I will checkin that as soon as I
> had enough time to test it. Now the lowzoom essentially consist of four
> types:
> a) base layers (captionless),
> b) overlay layers (caption),
> c) result layers (tile, caption, captionless) and
> d) non-stiching layers (caption).
>
> For now b) and d) are the same, but no longer hardcoded.

Ok. Checked in. Feel free to comment.

The code makes still certain assumptions (e.g. that base layers are never 
stitched from anything else than the same layer), but I wont fix these 
without real need.

Ciao
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