[Tilesathome] Tileset files

[spaetz]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:47:21PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> The first question needs to be "What are you trying to solve?". Yes it
> might be nice to have that information but in the end it should be there
> for a reason.

For example this is the reason why I currently don't include x,y,base z, and layer info in the tileset file.
It's clear from the location the files are stored. And as they are not thought for being transferred a lot, I feel it's fine as it is...


> I can see the purpose of finding broken clients/apis but i guess this
> information is obsolete after 14 days (3 hours at the commit rate in the
> client svn).

> So you'd want client version, and data source (API, ROMA, XAPI) and
> better put the url in there or some generator name from the osm file as
> i'd guess we'll see ROMAs grow like mushrooms.

A short unique generator name might make sense. Perhaps better than the URL.
 
> For finding clients a metadata xml file uploaded parallel to the tileset
> and deleted after some time would be sufficient. No need to keep that
> data forever ...

I'd agree with it, but whoever implements, decides. That's how open source works :-)

spaetz