natural=beach should be rendered also at lower zoom levels

[matkoniecz]

natural=beach should be rendered also at lower zoom levels (10, 11), at least at 12 (currently it appears at 13)

see for an example http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=42.9847&mlon=27.8891#map=12/42.9847/27.8891

I hope that something like this would not be significant performance hit.

[matthijsmelissen]

See also https://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/4483

[matkoniecz]

I plan on making a pull request for this one (and other very similar situation) and I wonder why landcover is frequently blocked from appearing below some zoom level. Is it done for performance reasons?

[gravitystorm]

Partly for performance reasons (low zoom levels become very slow) but also for aesthetic reasons. When the map zooms out far enough, lots of tiny 3-pixel-wide blocks of different colours doesn't look great.

But that's just in general - nothing against the plan suggested here.

[matthijsmelissen]

We could add more minimum area sizes to prevent too many pixel-size areas showing up.

[HolgerJeromin]

There is a really huge military area in the South of England which could / should render at a low zoom.

[matkoniecz]

Is it a beach? If so, could you link this location? If no - can you create a new ticket (and link location of this feature)?

[matkoniecz]

It seems that even narrow beaches render well - as it is a long object on shores there is no danger of small unidentifiable pixels in weird colours appearing in various places.