[Tilesathome] Some questions on client behaviour

[Matthias Julius]

Dirk-Lüder Kreie <osm-list at deelkar.net> writes:

> Andre Hinrichs schrieb:
>
>> 4.) Why do I have to start a separate upload process after rendering when the 
>> client is not in loop mode?
>
> Because the xy mode is also intended for "offline" use, where the
> results are not uploaded to the server, but instead feed a local
> slippymap tileserver.
>
>
>> Suggestion to 4.) Implementation of a new option to do rending and uploading 
>> in one step. Normally I would have expected that this is the default but 
>> changing the behavior now could probably cause problems with some other 
>> control scripts.
>
> I would find that dangerous to have as default.

He is not talking about the xy mode but the "no mode" of the client
(no mode specified on command line).  Here the client gets a job from
the server and processes it, but it does not upload it to the server.

I was considering to change this because I think it would be more
consistent with loop mode.

Another possibility would be to make loop mode the default and have a
new "single" mode for rendering and uploading a single tileset.  This
is because loop mode is probably the mode that is used most.  But of
course, this would be a more disruptive behavior change.

Matthias