Odditown map being manipulated?

[shubla]

There was this relatively large village on odditown map some time ago.

But today, I noticed that in the newest version of tiles it is missing?

Is somebody playing tricks with map files being submitted into odditown map?

Or maybe its just some accidental bug.

[Ysh]

Whatever reason is I expect detective shubla to get to bottom of it.

[borka]

shubla ... are you trying to manipulate ?!?

by not posting this in the WT map thread ... where the question prolly gets fetched up faster than here i guess ...

[Nexit]

I'd assume that someone just uploaded older map files

[Vassteel]

I think whats happening is old map files are being uploaded which I think overwrites whats currently there.

ive noticed several villages doing this. not much odditown can do but I don't believe whoever runs odditown is messin the files themselves

[Shadow7168]

Don't believe the map cares about the date the tiles were generated, someone probably just uploaded a big batch from before the village was there. Is it really that big of a deal thou? Odditown isn't accurate in the first place, it's only to give you a picture of the terrain. Last world villages shown on the map could be long abandoned and entirely decayed, while empty spaces had new villages in them.

[algeralith]

At the end of the day, the map is only as reliable as the data being sent.
In this case, someone simple just did a :savemap to dump tiles within their client and sent it in.
:savemap gives the tiles the time in which the command is invoked and dumps from the ingame map. So they obviously have not been back to that area.

Just a snippet of that session. You can tell its mostly a :savemap dump by the lack of ledges on the mountain.

Do not worry, it is all still in the database in case I ever decide to come up with a better way to determine most recent.
I suppose I could just, you know, manually set it. But in this instance, I do not feel the need to do so.

Also, this post seems useless overall. Should have probably just been put in the main mapping thread.

[azrid]

The worms are just digging down to hide from their enemies.

[Hose]

The worms are just digging down to hide from their enemies.

Trying to get back into their natural environment