Re: [Talk-us] JOSM zoom limits per server solved (fixes Tiger grey overlay )

2012-09-24 Thread Mark Gray
Do any tile generators create a description file that can be retrieved? If not, does anyone here have any influence that could get them to? For my program that displays tiles I keep a list of tile servers. For each one I try to populate the following fields: Server Name: Label to show user

Re: [Talk-us] JOSM zoom limits per server solved (fixes Tiger grey overlay )

2012-09-23 Thread Toby Murray
I knew about the max zoom setting but for some reason never thought about applying it to the TIGER tiles to fix the grey Toby On Sep 21, 2012 1:23 PM, Alan Millar grunthos...@yahoo.com wrote: Maybe everyone else knows this, but I just discovered it myself so I thought I would share it.

Re: [Talk-us] JOSM zoom limits per server solved (fixes Tiger grey overlay )

2012-09-23 Thread Alan Millar
I also found there is a minimum zoom also. Put it in the url as min,max like tms[16,19]:http://... Fixes the grey tiles when I zoom back out. - Alan On Sep 23, 2012, at 12:54 AM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: I knew about the max zoom setting but for some reason never thought

Re: [Talk-us] JOSM zoom limits per server solved (fixes Tiger grey overlay )

2012-09-23 Thread Ian Dees
The root cause if you will, is that TileStache doesn't support 404ing instead of grey tiles when a request falls out of the specified bounds. If someone wants to code that up and submit a pull request, I would much rather use that. On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Alan Millar

Re: [Talk-us] JOSM zoom limits per server solved (fixes Tiger grey overlay )

2012-09-23 Thread Dale Puch
Not to get into the coding as I have no idea how it is handled, but better to not offer a 404 page, but to keep the min/max zoom tile as the reply in this case. Ie if asking for zoom 20+ return with zoom 19 instead. More of a redirect instead of 404 if zoom is out of bounds. One possibility to

[Talk-us] JOSM zoom limits per server solved (fixes Tiger grey overlay )

2012-09-21 Thread Alan Millar
Maybe everyone else knows this, but I just discovered it myself so I thought I would share it. I've been using Remap-a-tron to fix up US roads. I use both the Bing imagery and the TIGER 2012 tiles overlaid, and it makes it really useful. However, I've been frustrated that I can pretty far in