[Tilesathome] Which oceantiles.dat is used for display?

[Maarten Deen]

Rob Reid wrote:
> Maarten Deen wrote the following on 03/10/2008 22:37:
>> If you look at
>> <http://www.informationfreeway.org/?lat=-74.56&lon=-135.06&zoom=12>, you'll
>> see the left tiles as land and the right as sea. The info for the blank sea
>> tile is "Displaying empty tile based on oceantiles.dat".
>> Which oceantiles.dat is this? Is this the local oceantiles.dat at the user's
>> that was used at the time of rendering or is it an oceantiles.dat that is
>> present at runtime on the server?
>>
> The tah server has a copy of oceantiles that it checks when serving
> blank tiles, this is copied from the svn version daily, so changes you
> check in should be reflected at zoom 12 within 24 hours.
> The lowzoom from z6-z11 won't happen automatically as the tiles have not
> changed as far as the server is concerned. Requesting a re-render of a
> z12 tile should trigger a new lowzoom for the corresponding area within
> a day or so.
> There is a situation where this may not work as above. The server used
> to store blank tilesets, so for tiles where there is a blank tileset
> (assuming they have not been deleted since) a re-render may be required
> as this will cause the server to delete the blank tileset and revert to
> using oceantiles of that blank tile.

So it works as I hoped, and the client does not need the oceantiles.dat anymore.
But apparently something is wrong, because I made changes to the location I
posted several days ago. I assume the blank legacy tile is gone, as
Sebastian(?) said they would be after moving to the new server, and because
the tileinfo says "Displaying empty tile based on oceantiles.dat".

So why does the server still display sea? Does it have an old version of
oceantiles.dat, and if so: why?

Maarten