[Tilesathome] fonttest failed on Batik/Win32

[Matthias Julius]

Alan Millar <amillar503 at gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

I guess the real bottleneck is for the client to get the data.

Matthias