[Tilesathome] Questions on tile updating process

[Sebastian Spaeth]

Andre Hinrichs wrote:
> On Montag 20 April 2009, Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
>> Andre Hinrichs wrote:
>>> Hmm... with the short format request I cannot even see, if an empty tile
>>> was recently finished. Is there a short request to get the render
>>> requests of a tile? Only the status is needed: unhandled, active,
>>> finished...
>> Yes you can, it includes the date of the tileset file, from that you can
>> easily see how long ago it was uploaded. If it is unhandled or active it
>> doesn't hurt to request it again, as it will only accept 1 active render
>> of a tile at one time.
> 
> That's not true for empty tiles, is it?
> Just checked with an empty tile... no info.

No, because they don't have any metadata (there is no corresponding
tileset file to take a date from, I could probably use the date of
blanktiles.dat or something if that helps).