[OSM-talk] Missing tiles?

[Dave Stubbs]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Lukasz Szybalski <szybalski at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I followed the instructions on your website how to get the planet and
> how to generate tiles from mapnik.
>
> I got everything going. After a day I got all my tiles but when I look
> at the example you have put on your website,
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mapnik
>
> with map in
> http://tile.openstreetmap.org/7/63/42.png
>
> I don't seem to have /7/63 my tiles start at 7/64. could somebody on
> your server run this command and send me a file with a list of tiles.
>
> tree tiles >osm_tiles.txt
>
> you might need to install tree first.
>
> aptitude install tree
>
> Any idea why I might be missing some tiles?
>

The tile server generates tiles using mod_tile [1]. This renders them
on request if they haven't already been done. There are many millions
of tiles on the tile server, taking up GBs of space.

If you just want prerendered tiles then you'll need to modify the area
being rendered by the generate_tiles script. It's currently hardcoded
to render some cities at the bottom of the file.

Dave

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mod_tile