[Tilesathome] Blank tiles...

[Łukasz Jernaś]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:05 PM, spaetz <osm at sspaeth.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 05:37:24PM +0200, ??ukasz Jerna?? wrote:
>
>> I have a propably stupid question - how do I know if a tile viewed at
>> tah is really an empty tile or that it wasn't just rendered. Currently
>> the only way I know of is checking the request queue history on
>> http://server.tah.openstreetmap.org/Browse/details/tile/foobar
>
> It's not a stupid question.
>
> There is no way of knowing. The server discards upload entries after 48h. That's why the server had to go through all empty land tiles when rerendering the world. I don't think there are unrendered spots left, but it could well be.

Maybe an idea would be to modify the index in the v2 tileset files, to
keep an info if a tile was ever rendered? Additional metadata would be
a bit overkill...

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Regards,
Łukasz