[Tilesathome] fonttest failed on Batik/Win32

[Matthias Julius]

"Sebastian Spaeth" <Sebastian at SSpaeth.de> writes:

> On 2010-07-31, Matthias Julius wrote:
>> "Sebastian Spaeth" <Sebastian at SSpaeth.de> writes:
>> 
>> > On 2010-07-16, Matthias Julius wrote:
>> >> It probaly would improve the appearence of the low zoom levels if we
>> >> were rendering a few more captionless-lowzoom layers like
>> >> captionless-z6 which would be meant to be scaled down to z6 for
>> >> example.  This would allow to remove more details from the lower zoom
>> >> levels.
>> >
>> > Yes, that would be nice, but are current clients up to notch to actually
>> > render a z6 area containing .osm data for that area? I have difficulties
>> > just rendering such an area containing the captions... :-).
>> 
>> No, I meant to have them render z12 sized tiles optimized to be stitched
>> together to a z6 tile.
>> 
>> "Otpimized" means with styles appropriate for the respective low zoom
>> levels.  There is no point in rendering secondary roads for z6.
>
> Right, someone simply needs to produce stylesheets for that. I am not
> sure how much storage space it would consume for some marginal benefit
> (I don't think the current z6 looks very bad).

No, not *very* bad. ;-)

Actually, it doesn't look bad at all - just a bit crowded.

> I'd rather invest the disk space in a cool captionless layer that
> can serve as a base for the language overlay layers.


>
> Sebastian
>
> _______________________________________________
> Tilesathome mailing list
> Tilesathome at openstreetmap.org
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tilesathome