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TheNerd

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Registered: 2009-08-12

Posts: 2

question about zoom and ways not showing up (I'm a n00b)

Hi Everyone,

I've recently discovered OSM and I love the project.

I've realized that it takes some time for changes to take effect but after they do it seems that I can only see some ways that I've drawn when zoomed in quite close. I've even joined one of these ways with another one (same highway) but the part I created only shows when zoomed close in but the other section (the one I joined it to) shows when zoomed out.

Does that make sense? Am I simply being impatient or doing something wrong?

Thanks
~TheNerd

Last edited by TheNerd (2009-08-12 01:49:28)

Vclaw

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From: Alba

Registered: 2009-02-25

Posts: 522

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Re: question about zoom and ways not showing up (I'm a n00b)

Simple answer: yes, you are being impatient.
Different zoom levels are updated at different times - usually the closer zooms are updated more often than the zoomed out views.
For the Osmarender layer, you can usually speed up things by going to http://www.informationfreeway.org/ and requesting a rerender (zoom in to level 12, and press i ).

Also, it could be you are looked at a cached version of the tiles. Doing a shift+refresh in your browser might help.

TheNerd

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Registered: 2009-08-12

Posts: 2

Re: question about zoom and ways not showing up (I'm a n00b)

Thanks Vclaw. I sorta figured that might have been part of the issue I just wanted to check. Also, Shift+refresh didn't work this time but that's likely due to the time thing.

Thanks for the tip about the Osamarender too

Cheers!
~TheNerd