Featured tile layers/Updates

When do I see my work on OpenStreetMap?

• Edits are applied to renderings database. If things are going well - every minute.
• Tiles are requested to be re-rendered when people actually look at them. Sometimes there is no spare capacity and render is old.

Z12 Updates

This article or section may contain out-of-date information: The /dirty command is no longer externally accessible for OSMF-run servers.
If you know about the current state of affairs, please help keep everyone informed by updating this information. (Discussion)

1. Go to https://osm.org
2. Navigate to the area you are interested in and zoom down to level 12.
3. Use right-click to find/copy the URL of the stale tile.
4. Paste the tile's URL into the address bar.
5. At the end of the URL, add /dirty and then press ↵ Enter.
6. The response to this request should be simply "Tile submitted for rendering"

For a complete explanation of this issue, see How often does the main (mapnik) map get updated?

Lowzoom renders

March 08 saw an improved version for zoom levels 8-11 that displays town and city names in a much better fashion, as well as more detail in the roads displayed.

Stage 1 requires that a special layer be created that contains just the town and city names for zoom levels 8-11.

Stage 2 requires that all 256 z12 tiles in a z8 tile have been 'recently' rendered by the new 'Poynton' client. This client creates a special 'captionless' layer that is basically the Zoom level 12 tile with no captions.

The final stage involves running a new lowzoom process that downloads the 256 captionless z12 tiles in a z8 area from stage 2, plus the special caption tiles created in stage 1 and merges them into the new lowzoom tiles.

See also

• Standard tile layer - displayed as "Standard" at our website
• Slippy Map page also has some details on updates
• Coastline rendering is different, and currently has a longer update cycle.

External references

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