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

[Maarten Deen]

Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
> 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.

Is it an idea to do a graceful restart every 24h? "apachectl -k graceful".
You'll have to update the oceanfiles.dat file in a cron job anyway, this is
just a small addition.
I don't quite remember how long it was that I changed that part, but it could
well have been last weekend. 5 days is a lot different than 1 day.

Maarten