Rectangular Sea block covering TP tiles...

[Guest Anubis]

This is something weird. I am doing a World Tour with TileProxy and I was flying in Egypt, from Cairo to Aswan International, flying South along the Nile river.What I saw on my left (East) was a big block of Sea. I said to myself "That's the Red Sea." but then I looked at the GPS and the Red Sea should be farther East. That area should be desert.I suspected a TileProxy glitch, so I erased the tiles with the cache browser and started again, taking off from Aswan International and flying North East: again the big rectangular block of sea was there.Do you know what is it? Have you experienced before anything like that? I can verify by taking off from Aswan [HESN] and fly North East. If you switch to satellite view you should be able to see the big block of sea immediately.Thanks for any hint!PaoloEDIT: It is not rectangular, I have moved from side to side, here's the shape:

[lliaudais 2]

Well Dang!I thought it was just ME!It's always possible that it a FS or TP glitch but I saw the same.I had a very similar issue at probably the same location while doing the Nile a couple years ago and it might have been the same exact location. There was also one more central to the Med in Algeria or Lybia - the imagery was there but it kept wanting to draw a block of water. I suspect there is an image tile missing at some level... TP reverts to next larger or ocean if it doesn't have a complete set to work with; and LOD8 is the largest that TP tries to make. Anyway, it's not just you...We can persue it if you have nothing better to do.Loyd

[Guest Anubis]

... I suspect there is an image tile missing at some level... TP reverts to next larger or ocean if it doesn't have a complete set to work with; and LOD8 is the largest that TP tries to make. ...

Hi Loyd,I begin to believe missing tiles as well. I was looking once again at the MS-DOS Window and I saw that a few elements in the ovals at low resolutions were missing.Does it matter to use the lower LOD level (8) or not?Paolo

[lliaudais 2]

Hi Loyd,I begin to believe missing tiles as well. I was looking once again at the MS-DOS Window and I saw that a few elements in the ovals at low resolutions were missing.Does it matter to use the lower LOD level (8) or not?Paolo

I don't normally use the built-in LOD8 in this version; if you do, then it would have to be something at a smaller LOD missing (?)One test might be to do a level mapping and substitute either LOD7 or 9 and see if it changes anything... or turn on/off the LOD8 feature.As my highschool band director used to say about an out of tune instrument: do something; it'll either get better or worse...Loyd