spaetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 07:51:55PM -0400, Matthias Julius wrote: >> There seems to be a problem with the oceantiles.dat fallback >> mechanism of the server. For example >> http://server.tah.openstreetmap.org/Browse/details/tile/12/3800/894/ >> shows a transparent tile. > > As Dirk said, mixed tiles are sent as transparent now. As mixed tiles > should never be shown as empty (they do contain coastline per > definition), oceantiles.dat needs fixing there. > > I chose transparent to enable people to distinguish sea from mixed > tiles in the oceantile.dat layer as elaborated in another mail.
That makes some sense. I had missed that. It might be better to send an error tile or just a HTTP error in these cases. With the transparent tiles one doesn't know whether it is still loading or something is broken because they're invisible. Matthias _______________________________________________ Tilesathome mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tilesathome
