[Tilesathome] fonttest failed on Batik/Win32

[Alan Millar]

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 6:51 AM, Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian at sspaeth.de>wrote:

> 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... :-).
>

I supposed it would depend on how much data is removed for the z6 level.  Is
the client-side problem in converting OSM to SVG, or in rendering the SVG to
bitmap?  I thought it was in rendering SVG to bitmap where the big client
issues are.  If the OSM data is simplified for z6, then it could be done.

That means a lot of decision making about what is kept and what is skipped
for z6.

Personally, I like having the lowzoom look different between Mapnik and TaH;
I like our current z6 the way it is.  But that's just my opinion.

- Alan
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