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

[spaetz]

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 :-(

Agreed that it should probably be easier. Someone just needs to write a tool and process it. Nevertheless, I think that it shouldn't be too easy and I think infofreeway makes it too easy. Let me elaborate:

1) One can quickly and accidentally press the wrong key, marking a tile erronously. I know that I have done that on occassion.
2) It's not always that easy to know if the oceantiles.dat is really at fault here, it requires some intricate knowledge of how things work. E.g. there are often inverted tiles with coastline in it: those are not oceantile.dat's fault (which is only ever consulted if there is no coastline at all in the tile).
spaetz