[OSM-talk] blank tiles in the slippy maps

SteveC steve at asklater.com
Mon Feb 19 13:55:54 GMT 2007



David Earl wrote:
> (a) Is there any way to suppress the "more osm coming soon" tiles in the
> slippy maps in areas which really are empty? (If I could guess where the
> tile boundaries are, I could put a single anonymous node in each I suppose,
> but I have no easy way to determine this).

In theory we could do a quick look up to see if data exists (count(*)). 
The code is in svn to hack on...

> (b) Why do I intermittently but very frequently get these "more osm coming
> soon" tiles when they really are there? Most often on mapnik, but this is
> the default.

This may be a server load, browser or openlayers issue. openlayers 
sometimes shows the wrong tiles or broken ones, but so does gmaps. Your 
guess is as good as mine :-)

have fun,

SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/




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