[Tilesathome] Tileset files

[Matthias Julius]

spaetz <osm at sspaeth.de> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 08:59:54AM -0400, Matthias Julius wrote:
>
>> The savings is 4 kB per maplint tileset and about 5.3 kB per
>> captionless tileset.  How much that actually saves on the filesystem
>> depends on the filesystem.
>
> At the cost of a little more calculation when assembling and fetching
> data. AFAIK captionless was planned to be extended beyond z12 at some
> time, to allw for different languages also at higher zoom.
>
> we don't save anything anymore if the tileset is completely empty
> which saves a lot of real disk space. I don't have strong feelings
> about it. I just don't feel the pressing urge to restructure the code
> base that just started to stabilize somewhat.
>
> We are deleting legacy tiles right now and I am investigating a new
> server sponsor (that should have plenty of disk space), so disk space
> is not my #1 concern right now.

That's fine. It is certainly not the highest priority anyway.

Matthias