[Tilesathome] render a region

[Matthias Julius]

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab at gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Sebastian Spaeth <sebastian at sspaeth.de> wrote:
>> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Ed Loach <ed at loach.me.uk> wrote:
>>>> From what I remember reading on this list, would it not be better to
>>>> have something similar to add the relevant tiles to the request
>>>> queue, rather than rendering them yourself? I think the jobs have to
>>>> (currently) go via the queue to trigger the render of the z0-z11
>>>> layers. Or did I misunderstand?
>>>
>>>  <z12 is generated from z12-captionless. As long as you upload that
>>> layer when you render your uploaded tiles will show up in lowzoom,
>>> request queue or not.
>>
>> Nope :-). While true that <12 is generated from z12 captionless, a new
>> lowzoom stitch will only be started if a "fulfilled" render request is
>> in the database ie there was a render request in the queue when uploading.
>
> Can I (a client) manually mark things as if there had been a render
> request so that <z12 is generated then?

No, but can request the render.  And if you really need to make sure
that the server uses your tiles you need to upload them before anybody
else grabs that job.

Matthias