[Tilesathome] Display problem of names - New approach

[D Tucny]

2009/1/4 Dirk Stöcker <openstreetmap at dstoecker.de>

> Hello,
>
> the situation of name display for t at h map is bad and did not improve for
> some time now.
>
> I would suggest to switch to another approach. Separate the current tiles
> dataset into a captionless dataset and into a capion dataset and render
> the caption dataset using a more generic approach. E.g. we could move the
> caption generation of some layers into the lowzoom stuff, so only one data
> set is used and the handling problem of tile switches vanishs.
>
> This BTW would also allow supporting localized maps and other forms of
> overlays.
>

This sounds like a good idea to me... I've been considering the use of
different caption layers for different languages for a bit, but, one
obstactle that I could see was that of having captions on the existing
tiles, so, it wouldn't be possible to just generate overlays, there'd need
to be captionless tiles at all zoom levels...

Another problem I can see however would be that it would likely slow down a
slippy map as the number of tiles to be fetched for a certain view would be
doubled...

Anyway, it sounds good to me :)

d
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