[Tilesathome] T at H vs. BOINC - Neverending story?

[Jeremy Adams]

>> It is possible that there are avenues of cartography not yet explored,
>> for which something like the TaH infrastructure would really be useful.
>
> Something I've always thought would be really nice to have is to have selectable
> layers with streets, POIs, etc of different types. These would have to be
> rendered individually (although as some kind of overlay with transparency
> probably), which would obviously take more computing power than the current
> process.
>
> Maybe that would be something suitable for tah?
>
> Lars

I have no idea how hard this would be from a technical standpoint, but
it would make a really cool map for sure.  Even just different layers
like buildings, POIs, roads, landuse each rendered with a transparent
background so they can be layered over each other would be really
handy to have.

-Jeremy