[OSM-talk] When will the next mapnik coastline update be?

[John Smith]

2009/12/13 Jon Burgess <jburgess777 at googlemail.com>:
> On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 09:10 +1000, John Smith wrote:
>> It's slightly annoying now that things render so quickly that the
>> coastlines don't.
>
> I ran the coastcheck utility last night to update the coastline
> shapefiles on the main Mapnik layer.
>
> The updates will not automatically appear on the map unless the tiles is
> re-rendered due to updates of other data. We have no mechanism to
> recognise which tiles need to be rendered when the coastline is updated.
> This is part of the reason why the updates are normally coincident with
> the bulk reload where we mark all the old tiles as invalid.

Are the tiles still automatically refreshed on the first request after
7 days? If so updating at least weekly would still be useful.