Christoph Hormann

The grid based approach with an adaptive resolution grid is something i have never seen implemented so far - nice to see this works. The code looks fairly obscure to...

I still have trouble wrapping my head around this. So dist_to_middle/start is not euclidean distance - i suppose it is meant to represent the shortest 4-connectivity or 8-connectivity walk to...

Yes, this is the kind of error i had in mind when i said it is weird that your method actually works. But even without the specific flaw you circled...

For some version of 'correctly'. The classic German topographic map did not universally use topographically oriented contour labels (though in many sheets it indeed did). Eduard Imhof is known to...

> Both imagery offsets and quality assessments would seem to share a couple of similar properties that might make it possible to include them in one system (as noted above...

> Editors can always choose to show or not show the very old ones based on the provided dates (e.g. iD right now excludes everything known to be older than...

Sure. Ultimately this is of course likely a bit of a hen-and-egg problem.

> Also the future of CartoCSS is unclear. While there is still need for it, nobody cares much for it anymore. The vast majority of CartoCSS users are satisfied with...

I know you indicate this to be an experiment but still - may i ask what the strategic vision is behind this or in other words: Where do you intend...

Trying to understand what you mean by that - so this is a feasibility study to see if tilemaker can be practically managed operationally to generate world wide vector tiles...