[Tilesathome] Coastline blocky look

Maarten Deen mdeen at xs4all.nl
Tue Sep 16 18:08:06 BST 2008


spaetz wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 06:17:25PM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Maarten Deen <mdeen at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> > Does pressing "l" (lowecase L) still work for making the renderer think it is land?
>> 
>> Not sure. Do those requests get processed still?
> 
> I don't think so. And honestly, I am not sure it's quite useful. People press those keys accidently (I know I did) or without really knowing the intricate details of oceantiles.dat (only matters if there is no coastline at all etc etc)
> 
> Not that I blame people for now knowing these, but tuning the oceantiles knob requires some understanding of the system.

There is a lot more fishy there. There are also coastlines that are rendered the 
wrong way around.
For example Banda Atjeh at 
<http://www.informationfreeway.org/?lat=5.525&lon=95.421&zoom=12&layers=B000F000F>
The coastline is correct so I requested some renders and now it starts to look ok.

Who is maintaining oceantiles.dat? I think we need to make an effort to rectify 
this.

Maarten




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