[OSM-talk] Different tile numbers in MapTiler than other tile sets

[Andy Allan]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Jukka Rahkonen
<jukka.rahkonen at mmmtike.fi> wrote:
> Andy Allan <gravitystorm <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> gdal2tiles, and probably MapTiler too, produce OGC-approved,
>> industry-standard "TMS" tiles, which are numbered from bottom left.
>> Over here in the real world, everyone else uses tiles numbered from
>> the top left. That's almost certainly the problem.
>>
>> I don't know how to fix it for you, but maybe look for an option "(x)
>> ignore the standards when the standards are wrong" option in MapTiler?
>
> TMS standard comes originally from the Open source GIS world, see
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Tile_Map_Service_Specification. Are you suggesting to
> ignore Open source when industry starts to accept the same concepts :)

We've been ignoring Open Source GIS standards since forever, because
they generally suck. Note the lack of WMS and/or WFS-T running on any
of our servers :-)

This reminds me of sitting around with various OSGeo+OCG people at
FOSS4G in Cape Town, with them all berating their own standards for
being overcomplicated and impossible to implement! We've got nothing
to be ashamed of by focussing on doing things better.

Cheers,
Andy