On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Dirk Stöcker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, 80n wrote:
>
>  I'd vote for keeping it on the server. Before it was done server-side the
>> lowzoom tiles always seemed to be a bit of a mess with inconsistent styles
>> and frequent Unknown Type tiles.
>>
>
> Compared to the old lowzoom scripts the [EMAIL PROTECTED] integration has 
> lots of
> differences. So currently there is no way "unknown tiles" or something like
> that can happen.
>

When you declare that something can't happen any more, then it usually will
;)

Unknown type:
http://www.informationfreeway.org/?lat=34.144000000000005&lon=20.435599999999997&user=80n&zoom=3&layers=B000F000

80n


>
> Essentially it does download every tile from server, except caption tiles
> which are generated directly when caption layer is requested as well.
>
> 3 differences:
> a) When server tile is plain land or water, the corresponding information
> from oceantiles.dat is used. In case of a conflict a warning is issued as
> well.
> b) black tiles and plain mixed tiles are replaced by oceantiles.dat
> information and also warned. Black tiles should not exist anymore, bur are
> treated like the mixed marking 1 pixel tiles as well.
> c) Tiles which are empty land/sea/mixed and marked mixed in oceantiles.dat
> are output as dark blue tiles to encourage fixing of the error.
>
> In case there are warnings and no local modification to oceantiles.dat have
> been done, something is wrong and should be fixed either in oceantiles.dat
> or in the data (e.g. sometimes broken coastlines lead to full white tiles).
>
> A last note: Enabling fork option greatly speeds up the stitching, as
> downloading is done in parallel then :-)
>
>
> Ciao
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