[Tilesathome] Marking Tiles as sea or land (informationfreeway) without success

[Matthias Julius]

Knut Arne Bjørndal <bob+osm at cakebox.net> writes:

> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 08:17:48PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 08:02:02PM +0200, Olf wrote:
>> > This sounds difficult :-(  If you look around the coast of norway and a 
>> > growing number of tiles around the world (lakes ...)
>> > it would be necessary to have an easy way to mark tiles - I thought this 
>> > is informationfreeway but obviously it is not :-(
>> 
>> My guess without knowning the exact proceedure - informationfreeway
>> syncs into an oceantiles.dat/png somewhere on the tah servers. From time
>> to time people move the current oceantiles into the svn and thus to the
>> clients. So changing something to land/sea via informationfreeway
>> make take its time to propagate to the clients.
>
> I don't think it's used, there is a script in svn to parse a file on
> informationfreeway and change oceantiles, but iirc there were way too
> many accidental changes so it did more harm than good to run it.

I think the oceantiles stuff should be handled by the tah server with
an API to change and retrieve the data.  The server can require a
password for changing data.  The server could even add a render
request to the queue when a tile changes.

This would ensure that every client works with the same data.

Matthias