[Tilesathome] no wood / forest at z11 and below?

Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org
Tue Dec 22 07:51:31 GMT 2009


Hi,

80n wrote:
> I tried it a long time ago and it didn't look nice as the urban density 
> quickly gets lost and you end up with a green and blue splodge at very 
> low zoom levels.

Plus, at least for Mapnik rendering using the standard osm2pgsql 
mechanism, it is next to impossible performance-wise to render e.g. wood 
at z8. If one wanted to do this, one would have to pre-compute 
simplified shapes like we do with the coastline.

Bye
Frederik




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