[Tilesathome] Frustrated about oceantiles

[Andre Hinrichs]

On Dienstag, 16. Dezember 2008, Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
> Andre Hinrichs wrote:
> > I'm working on the oceantiles for three weeks now changing over 2200 tile
> > definitions and am getting more and more frustrated. The decision about
> > whether a tile is sea/land/mixed is sometimes very hard and often vague.
> > I've seen cases where the coastline is about 0.5 meters away or within a
> > tile. So the next time somebody is moving a single node there may harm
> > the tile rendering.
>
> Mixed tiles should theoretically not be necessary today already, as
> mixed tiles contain coastline by definition and should therefore never
> be looked up. So it doesn't hurt to keep a mixed tile as land/sea if in
> doubt. Might also save some work.

Definitely. According to the WIKI the mixed state is only necessary for 
neighbor tiles. But there is no example in which case this is necessary. Does 
anybody know such a case and will that still be the case in future 
developments?

Hopeful greetings
Andre
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