[Tilesathome] Lowzoom Place Labels displaced

[spaetz]

On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 01:09:07AM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> (Management overview: New or/p in SVN. Check it out.)
(Management answer: Great thanks)

> Frederik Ramm wrote:

> So, after fixing Tileset.pm to allow the creation of caption tiles (not 
> commited as it was an ugly hack - someone do it right please)

Can someone else than me look into it? I have to prepare a lecture I have to give on Monday...

> A quick calculation shows us that the "Osmarender error" (resulting from 
> choosing 1/cos(middle latitude) of a tile for projecting all of it instead 
> of applying this formula to every latitude) would be in the range of up to 
> +/- 6% for a Z6 tile in the 50°N area, yielding an error of up to 15km - 
> that roughly matches what we're seeing above.

interesting

> I would actually like to modify orp.pl to use the Proj.4 library, then it 
> could support any projection you want. But for the mean time I have applied 
> a patch that was sent to me by Alfons Andorfer a long time ago which makes 
> orp.pl use a correct Mercator projection.

mmh, sounds good.

> (It took me about 20 attempts to get valid data from OsmXAPI today, all the 
> other attempts were simply cut off somewhere in the middle... at a 

apache is completely dead by now. the nfs where openaerialmap is on, is down and all the openaerialmap thingies crash and take apache instances down with them :-(.

It is high-time to move away from that box

thanks frederik