[Tilesathome] WG: Questions on tile updating process

[Sebastian Spaeth]

Maarten Deen wrote:
> Norbert Hoffmann wrote:
>> Maarten Deen wrote:
>>
>>> I've been running this now with caption only, and I'm surprised how
>>> fast it is. I've changed the BorderNS to 0.3 and BorderWE to 1 (I've
>>> had a look and I don't think more than 1 degree is necessary).
>>
>> At zoom 6 there are some names "longer" than 5 degrees (mostly because
>> the
>> name is written in two languages). So I think to get all such names you
>> would have to fetch places from at least +-3 degrees outside the current
>> frame.
> 
> Do you have an example of one those so I can check how large they are?
> 
>> The lowzoom parameters Spaetz used - when creating the captions last
>> time -
>> had admin boarders included, to make then more prominent at small scales.
>> You seem not to generate those.
> 
> I'm running the default settings and it is telling in the logfiles that
> it is
> downloading way[boundary=administrative] too.
> I tested with tile (6,32,21) (that's parts of NL, BE, FR, UK) and it
> only renders captions, no borders. See attached image.
> 
> BTW: the caption does look a lot nicer. Compare it with the current tile
> at <http://tah.openstreetmap.org/Browse/details/tile/6/32/21/>

Somehow those empty tiles seem to be broken in the tile stitching
process (as noticed in
http://tah.openstreetmap.org/Browse/details/tile/6/32/21/).
I'm away traveling this week, but will have a look at it early next week.

spaetz