[OSM-dev] T at h area coverage

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

> I'm now a registered T at h helper, so I started a
> simple loop for all X and Y tile coordinates (at zoom 12) in this
> area, run tilesGen.pl xy $x $y, followed by upload.pl (and a short
> sleep).  Is this the recommended method, or is there something
> better?

That's perfectly ok but it is best to request updates through the  
central queue and have your tilesGen.pl run in "loop mode" at the  
same time. Then request re-rendering of the tiles you're interested  
in by repeatedly calling

http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/NeedRender/?x=$x&y= 
$y&priority=1&src=my_source_id

That way the results should be in even faster .. unless of course you  
don't trust the queue and would rather like to do it yourself ;-)

> When I edited the area in JOSM, I saved the area as a file
> "murmansk.osm".  I guess I could dig through that file to find
> node coordinates, convert them to tile coordinates, and only run
> "tilesGen.pl xy $x $y" for the tiles that have nodes.

Read my Tiles at home/Currency article in the wiki, there's a script  
named "lastmodtile.pl" mentioned there. That is geared towards  
planet.osm which has a last-modified attribute with nodes/segments/ 
ways but a little change will probably make that script do exactly  
what you want.

Bye
Frederik

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