[Tilesathome] Clients uploading broken tilesets

[spaetz]

BCC'ed beldin as this concerns him.

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 08:28:53AM +0200, Andreas Mueller wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've been watching the (now really fast) process of the server-queue
> meltdown on the t at h status pages. Several times, I've seen blank tiles,
> and most of them are from user "beldin".
> 
> For example this one here:
> <http://tah.openstreetmap.org/Browse/details/tile/12/2212/1418/>
> 
> On the user statistics page, you can see that this client has
> "rendered" about 3 million tiles totaling only 42 MB upload size.
> <http://tah.openstreetmap.org/User/show/>
> 
> I've just sent a message to the user (via the OSM messaging system) to
> notify him that his client is broken. What else (server-side) can be
> done about this?

There is no client version check yet on the new server, I am still negotiating with deelkar on whether we can't use a number based client version rather than city names (which could stay for human prettyness), so I don't have to maintain a list of client names server-side.

If he really uploads broken tilesets, I can always disable his user ID.

But (and this is different from the old server), I have his OSM email now and sent him a mail.
beldin, could you please make sure your client uploads correct tiles? Thanks.

spaetz