[OSM-talk] tiles at home 404 handler, and assumed seas

[Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)]

> Meanwhile level-7 tiles were created that showed half of Europe under
> water, which I found somewhat less than ideal. With no information on
> whether the problem was known to OJW or whether he would want my help
> in fixing it, and without write access to the relevant database, I
> resorted to creating a list of those level-12 tiles that are "known
> land" from Martijn's data, removing all existing tiles from the list,
> and then uploading a 67-byte level-12 tile for the remaining tile
> areas. I did all this for Europe only, resulting in the upload of
> 250k tiles (don't worry, they are not stored on the server, each tile
> upload is effectively only an INSERT to the empty-tile database with
> 1000% overhead).

What about creating a point in the middle of each tile which says "this is 
land" and uploading it to the OSM-Main server. This way every renderer could 
use this information and everyone can correct it in case it has some minor 
bugs left.

-
Joerg