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

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2009/12/22 Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>

> 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.
>

Yes, I guess for mapnik that would be the way to go (generalized forests
would also look better at low zooms). But in T at H there shouldn't be this
problem, as the lowzoom is generated from z12, isn't it?

cheers,
Martin
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