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

Sebastian Spaeth Sebastian at SSpaeth.de
Fri Oct 3 13:44:02 BST 2008


Maarten Deen wrote:
> I've been busy mapping Antarctica, and I'm a bit confused as to when the
> changes will show up (that is: when Antarctica will be dry land on the map).
> 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?

It's the one on the server that is updated daily. It takes some time 
until apache reloads itself though before the new version is used.




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