[Tilesathome] WG: Questions on tile updating process

Norbert Hoffmann nhoffmann at spamfence.net
Sun May 10 17:22:56 BST 2009


Maarten Deen wrote:

>Norbert Hoffmann wrote:
>> 
>> At zoom 6 there are some names "longer" than 5 degrees (mostly because the
>> name is written in two languages). So I think to get all such names you
>> would have to fetch places from at least +-3 degrees outside the current
>> frame.
>
>Do you have an example of one those so I can check how large they are?

The text "Brussel - Bruxelles" at zoom 6 covers about 4 degrees, so it
could reach into a tile 2 degrees away. At the african coast of the
mediterranian sea there are even longer names.

Norbert





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