2009/3/16 Stephan Plepelits <[email protected]>: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 08:34:19PM +0100, Chris Browet wrote: >> Probably not, because lots of the tiles would need to be rendered >> especially for you. _ t_ i_ l_ e_ s_ ._ o_ p_ e_ n_ s_ t_ r_ e_ e_ t_ >> m_ a_ p_ ._ o_ r_ g basically only renders >> tiles that are "looked at" at all, so bulk-requesting areas will >> force >> large areas to render to the highest detail. >> >> Not true, AFAIK. Tiles are rendered as a whole once a week. >> I think there is a confusion with t...@h (_ t_ a_ h_ ._ o_ p_ e_ n_ s_ t_ r_ >> e_ e_ t_ m_ a_ p_ ._ o_ r_ g) > No, it's true. The tiles are rendered "on demand", using mod_tile. So if > nobody looks at a tile, it's not being rendered. Rendering everything to > the highest detail would take awful long. > > Every Wednesday the database is updated to the newest version, from that > time on you get new tiles (or if the load is to high still an old version > or no picture if it has never been rendered before). > > greetings, > Stephan
Still not quite. It's updated hourly now. And I had a feeling that it updated larger 8x8 metatiles at a time. I had a feeling that it cascaded down zoom levels, but it doesn't seem to be documented if so. -- Regards, Thomas Wood (Edgemaster) _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
