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

[Maarten Deen]

spaetz wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 05:35:44PM +0200, Maarten Deen wrote:
>> spaetz wrote:
>> 
>> > I set the opacity of the oceantiles layer to 0.5 now, see .e.g.
>> > http://server.tah.openstreetmap.org/Browse/slippy/?zoom=12&lat=51.53447&lon=3.66425&layers=BT
>> 
>> Looks good.
>> 
>> > mixed tiles are still shown as water tiles, though. No idea what would be best in that case.
>> 
>> Why not have land=green, mixed=grey, water=blue, like the oceantiles.png?
> 
> Elaborated in a separate mail: It's just so much easier to let the oceantiles.dat part of the tile serving plugin do it's job and show land/sea tiles. Having it show different tiles (say in different colors) would imply making the tile server more complicated.

Ok, missed that one.

>> BTW: I'm only now noticing this: there are a whole lot of mixed tiles in the 
>> Netherlands. Seems someone marked everything with a river as mixed.
>> My opinion is that a tile not touched by a coastline is not mixed. And rivers 
>> are no coastlines. Am I correct?
> 
> This is how I would expect it too. But take care, often people tag rivers coming from the sea as coastline for quite a bit into the land. Therefore changing the oceantiles status can really imply checking the data.

Rivers like the Meuse up to Maastricht? If the person who did this reads here: 
please don't.

Maarten