[Tilesathome] Effects of single-tileset upload change

[Dirk-Lüder Kreie]

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OJW schrieb:
> When the uploads start to store just one piece of metadata per tileset, there 
> will be a few visible changes:
> 
> * metadata-viewing API won't return accurate results until it gets new 
> functionality to tell it about tileset credits
> * downloadable list of tiles will probably be misleading, initially
> 
> Internally, there are some changes of interest to server developers:
> * Metadata won't be available for all tiles (obviously)
> * Filesize not stored in the database for tiles
> * More complex code required to find meta-info for any given tile (have to 
> search the z-12 as well as the tile itself)


Would it hurt to allow multiple tilesets in one zip?

I'm asking this because with the newly implemented "one tileset per zip"
there will be lots of small zips for areas with little or no data otherwise.

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Dirk-Lüder "Deelkar" Kreie
Bremen - 53.0952°N 8.8652°E

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