[OSM-talk] How to request mapnik tiles to be rendered

[Andy Robinson]

Jon Burgess wrote:
>Sent: 20 September 2007 8:45 PM
>To: talk
>Subject: [OSM-talk] How to request mapnik tiles to be rendered
>
>I've added a feature to allow individual Mapnik tiles to be rendered on
>demand. To do this, first locate the URL of the tile (e.g. right click
>and select copy link location in Firefox). Then paste this into your
>browser with "/dirty" appended e.g.
>
>http://tile.openstreetmap.org/10/159/355.png/dirty
>
>This might come in handy if you want to force a couple of tiles to get
>re-rendered before the normal 3 day expiry interval. This method allows
>any tile to be rendered but only effects this 1 tile (unlike the
>recursive z12 requests on Osmarender layer).
>
>This is still subject to the usual caveats about the map data only being
>updated once a week following the Wednesday planet dump. Also it'll
>still take a minute or so to get rendered or longer if there is a large
>backlog. You may also need to force your browser to reload the tile
>after rendering.
>
>	Jon


Excellent Jon, really useful.

Cheers

Andy