[Tilesathome] auto-requesting of changed tiles

[spaetz]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 03:14:16PM +0200, Dirk-Lüder Kreie wrote:

> These come from an (alpha) version of a script that uses the new
> "changes" method of the API to determine which z12 tiles have had
> changes in the last 4 hours, and then queues those automatically.
> 
> Currently nothing is done to check wether the tiles have already been
> requested in said time period (relies on "already in queue" check)
> The tiles could be ordered by number of changes, but are currently
> requested in no particular order. TBD.

Hey, that is excellent news! It means that people can stop dumb bulk requesting scripts which will prevent lots of uneeded rendering.

Feel free to run that script yourself, if you want we could also have it run on the dev server itself.

spaetz