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 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 with the Bing >> images, but if I go too far, the Tiger (normally transparent) tiles turn >> grey and obscure the Bing images. I've been continually turning off and >> back on the Tiger layer, which is a bit annoying after a while. >> >> JOSM has an easy limit in the Preferences for the maximum zoom, but it >> affects everything. I set it to 19, and then I did not get the grey >> boxes from Tiger, but did not get the higher detailed photos from Bing >> either. >> >> As it turns out, JOSM does have a max-zoom per tile server feature; it >> just is not obvious or clearly documented that I could find. >> >> You can enter it as part of the TMS url like this: >> >> tms[19]:http://{switch:a,b,c}. >> tile.openstreetmap.us/tiger2012_roads/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.png<http://tile.openstreetmap.us/tiger2012_roads/%7Bzoom%7D/%7Bx%7D/%7By%7D.png> >> >> The number 19, right up front, says that the maximum zoom to use for >> this layer is 19. This solved the whole thing for me. >> >> I also found that if you go into Josm preferences in expert mode, and >> dig and dig and dig into the imagery providers entries, this is labeled >> as max-zoom. Too bad it isn't easier to find. >> >> Anyways, hope this helps others too. >> >> - Alan >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-us mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >> > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >
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