[Tilesathome] render a region

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Ed Loach <ed at loach.me.uk> wrote:
>> Is it possible to develop the possibility to render an entire
>> (little) region with one command?
>
> 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.

> The area I mostly map consists of about 4 z12 tiles, and it is
> usually only one or two of these I'm working in on any given day, so
> just have a favourite to the most populous one of the four in my
> browser:
> http://tah.openstreetmap.org/Browse/?layer=tile&z=12&x=2060&y=1356
> and then navigate to whichever I want to request a rerender for from
> there.

It takes a longer time waiting for someone else to render it,
sometimes you don't want to wait.