mozilla/MozStumbler — pull request #998 by garvankeeley (2014-10-14 14:59:47+00:00)
Title: Reduce bandwidth at low zoom level: 'trick' the map into showing lower zoom levels.

For example, if the map is at zoom level x, show the tiles for x - 4. I don't do this exactly.

This code has a low/high zoom level switch, at
the high zoom level, behave as before this commit; at the low zoom
level, trick the map into showing very low resolution tiles, so only a
few tiles need loading to cover the map area.