[Tilesathome] Tileset files

Sebastian Spaeth Sebastian at SSpaeth.de
Fri Sep 19 05:59:56 BST 2008


Matthias Julius wrote:
> 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.

K, sounds sensible to me.




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