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--></style></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>[You may receive this twice as I sent it with “Reply” rather than “Reply to all” by mistake, you can delete the other one.]</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve had this start happening to me as well, I didn’t know there was a new backend.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On some occasions I’m really lucky and one reload does the trick, but often I have to reload a lot of <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>times as the tiles “can’t seem to decide” whether they are the old or new ones.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This applies only when zoomed in far.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I assume that the tiles are being fetched from multiple servers and they are fighting over where the<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>tile comes from, which is fine for general use and will probably speed things up, but for us mappers<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>looking for a quick way to check our mapping, it’s a bit annoying.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This is all on Microsoft Edge (Chromium) with the “Disable Cache” option on in the dev panel.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This option is vey handy so you don’t have to completely refresh the page, zooming in and out will<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“forget” the tiles of the layer you were on and so zooming back will fetch the tiles from the server<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>again.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>―<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Oliver Simmons [https://goodclover.xyz]<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0cm'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:mdeen@xs4all.nl">Maarten Deen</a><br><b>Sent: </b>29 December 2020 9:17 AM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:dev@openstreetmap.org">Dev</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [OSM-dev] How can I force refresh of map tiles after move to a new backed?</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On 2020-12-29 09:30, Mateusz Konieczny via dev wrote:</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Poland (and Europe in general) recently started using new backed for</p><p class=MsoNormal>> tile</p><p class=MsoNormal>> delivery from OSM servers.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> It is much faster and responsive so thanks to whoever handled this</p><p class=MsoNormal>> (hopefully it is not too expensive).</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> But sadly I see no way to force tile refresh, old method of clearing</p><p class=MsoNormal>> browser cache no longer works.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> See for example complete motorway at</p><p class=MsoNormal>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/52.20141/21.30912</p><p class=MsoNormal>> when I zoom out to</p><p class=MsoNormal>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/52.20141/21.30912 [1]</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It showed under construction when I first loaded it, then I did CTRL-F5 </p><p class=MsoNormal>and now it shows as completed.</p><p class=MsoNormal>My browser is firefox, YMMV.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Recently I have had more occasions where I updated something and I kept </p><p class=MsoNormal>seeing the old version and I had to use CTRL-F5 to see the new version. </p><p class=MsoNormal>In the past just a reload (CTRL-R) was sufficient. I wasn't aware that </p><p class=MsoNormal>there was a new backend. If this is related to that I would like to ask </p><p class=MsoNormal>that this is looked at as to why this happens.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Regards,</p><p class=MsoNormal>Maarten</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>dev mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>dev@openstreetmap.org</p><p class=MsoNormal>https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>