Introduce higher resolution details (inspired by OSM vector tiles)

[matthiasfeist]

The newly release demo of the OSM vector tiles (https://pnorman.github.io/tilekiln-shortbread-demo/#4.94/62.39/24.17) has an interesting behaviour: Lakes in particular in Scandinavia are displayed in much more detail than the basemap of protomaps. you can see it in the link above that there are a lot small lakes visible that are normally hidden by maps like mapbox, google maps etc and also on the basemap of protomaps.

I assume they have different settings for size-and-zoom-level cutoffs but I think it's awesome to have that level of detail.
So I was wondering how to achieve that with protomaps and if that maybe something for the default downloads?

[nvkelso]

Protomaps and other more mature tile stacks deliberately reduce the detail of lakes at mid-zooms to reduce file size.

[matthiasfeist]

That makes sense. But if file size is not a concern, how would you create a higher level of detail?

[wipfli]

Not fully sure, but maybe try setting the min pixel size here to zero and see what happens:

basemaps/tiles/src/main/java/com/protomaps/basemap/layers/Water.java

Line 169 in f40ab9e

.setMinPixelSize(1.0)

[wipfli]

@matthiasfeist can this issue be closed?

[matthiasfeist]

I guess so. I didn't manage to recreate the thing I tried to achieve but it doesn't really warrant to keep this ticket open :)