[Tilesathome] mark tiles as sea/land/mixed

[80n]

On 9/16/07, Brent Easton <b.easton at exemail.com.au> wrote:
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>
> >> The source is people pushing buttons on informationfreeway. I do run
> >> it occasionally, but it doesn't change very much. The reason is mostly
> >> because bad tiles are usually because the tileinfo on some client
> >> hasn't been updated. So you end up getting lots of changes that don't
> >> actually do anything...
> >
> >
> >Would it be worth enhancing the t at h client to periodically fetch a fresh
> >copy?
>
> Actually, what would be better is that the information is maintained on
> the t at h server and the request file contains a field saying whether the
> tile to be generated is Coast, Sea or Mixed.


Yes, that would indeed be better, but probably a little bit more work than
what I suggested which would be just a small patch to the tilesGen.pl perl
script, I think.

But, Brent, if you have some time to do it then it would be a very welcome
improvement.


Brent.
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