[Tilesathome] Overall Steps for T at H Client?

[Matthias Julius]

"Ian Dees" <ian.dees at gmail.com> writes:

> My pure-Java tiles at home does a good job of drawing and splitting tiles, but
> I'm not sure if I'm performing all of the steps that the current T at H client
> is doing before upload. Can someone outline all of the modifications that
> are made to the data and images before upload? I'd like to make sure the
> images that my client generates are identical to those that the current
> client generates.

After the tiles are created their appearance does not change anymore
significantly.  They are reduced to 256 colors and their compression
is optimized.

At some point in the hopefully not so distant future the client will
upload tileset files instead of zip files (see
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Tiles%40home/Tileset_as_one_file
respective
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Tiles%40home/Tileset_as_one_file_v2
for the proposed new version of this).

You might want to implement this as well.  I don't know whether the
server will still accept zip files after that.

Matthias