Am Sonntag, den 22.08.2010, 14:21 +0200 schrieb Marcel Lohmann: > Hi, > > can someone explain me, why is it necessary to render empty tiles? For > example see this tile > http://tah.openstreetmap.org/Browse/details/tile/12/2200/620/ > It is totally empty (or full of sea). And rendering this tile took > about two minutes. I think this is a waste of time to render empty > tiles. > And as the ocean covers around 60 percent of the earth's surface it is > a lot of optimization potential. The same is true for ice covered > regions of Arctic and Antarctica. If there are no nodes or paths on > the tile, it can be replaced by an predefined empty image. Right?
It's not empty! If you look very closely there are little 'NP' texts in there. This means, it's a national park. Andre _______________________________________________ Tilesathome mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tilesathome
