[Tilesathome] Proposal: Keeping tileset as one file

[Dirk-Lüder Kreie]

Florian Lohoff schrieb:

> I kept the current upload scheme where a compressed archive gets
> uploaded. So given that we dont change everything at once the first
> thing would be to convert a zip to a tar (non .gz). The next step would
> be to let the clients upload ".tar.gz" (if the gzip part is worth the
> compression ratio) and just uncompress the tar (not unarchive)

PNGs are already gz compressed, we don't need to compress the archive at 
all, this just creates unnecessary work serverside

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

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