[OSM-talk] tiles at Home

[Calum Polwart]

OK, so I thought - I'll offer up some of my CPU to rendering time.

I downloaded the tiles at home stuff and installed the needed perl
modules.  Edited the conf file and typed the commands and I get this:

        cpolwart at linux-PC:~/OpenStreetMap/tiles at home$ ./tilesGen.pl
        Downloading: Request from server done, 13 bytes
        OK, got something... (from the "grow" server module)
        Doing zoom level , location ,
        Doing area around -0.000000,0.000000
        Downloading: Map data to data-13973.osm done, 0 bytes
        No data at this location
        Trying smaller slices...
        Downloading: Map data to data-13973-0.osm done, 0 bytes
        No data here either
        
Sometimes I actually get a tile square (i.e. not 0.0,0.0) but never have
I produced a single byte of data?

Then I tried with a tile square that I know has data in it (I put it
there!):
        cpolwart at linux-PC:~/OpenStreetMap/tiles at home$ ./tilesGen.pl xy
        4058 2598
        Generating area 4058,2598,12
        Doing area around -43.484739,176.704102
        Downloading: Map data to data-14002.osm done, 0 bytes
        
        ...
        
So where am I going wrong?

One thing I haven't done yet is set my upload password - I emailed for
them but haven't got them yet - but I'm trying to render not upload.

I'm not sure where I am supposed to post this query> here or someplace
on the Wiki?

Something seems strange to me about what the tool is saying: No data
here trying smaller slices - surely it wants to try a bigger area if
there's no data in a small area?  Also if it doesn't find a rendering
square on the random tile server surely it should move on and try for
another, and another and another... until some time out setting [perhaps
set in conf file] would intervene - then I could leave it to render all
night from one command??

my username and password work on OSM OK...

Anyone know what's wrong?