[Tilesathome] Tileset files

Matthias Julius lists at julius-net.net
Wed Sep 17 14:02:50 BST 2008


spaetz <osm at sspaeth.de> writes:

> Feel free to come up with a sensible scheme. It would be good if the
> uploader client id could be at some defined location as before
           ^^^^^^
I guess this should be "user".

> though. This is the one internal variable that the server sets itself
> (the client doesn't and shouldn't know it id number and the server
> doesn't trust the client to insert the correct one). So if the server
> can just write <client id> at bytes 4-8 rather than parsing the
> metadata and rewriting the whole shebang, that would be good.

For compatibility reasons I would keep the userid where it is.  But,
if the meta data is just lines of text at the end of the tileset file
the server can easily append any information it likes without having
to parse anything.

Matthias




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