Sorry for the Spam Message today

Sorry for the spam message some hours ago, I could trace down the account of the user who some years ago translated the website to Italian got hacked (I guess his password and email were leaked somewhere), and that account had access to posting articles. I just did a couple of other checks and there was no access to the database or any files of the website. I could log that the post was written with his account so I downgraded his account to remove editing rights on articles and posts. This was not an administrator account so there has been no data breach.

As for news on openmtbmaps and velomaps – I am working on some new bigger things but will need some more months. I had hoped to be finished this early spring but because I moved back from Cyprus after 4 years to Innsbruck, I didn’t find enough time to finish this work. I am still blocked a bit on time by furnishing my new flat but soon should have more time to work on the new maps. Over the last months there have been constant improvements, some small bugs fixed but there haven’t been any […]

New Contourlines for Europe – and other recent news

The next map updates – coming over this weekend will include new contourlines. Actually I updated the contourlines already over the last few months for quite a few countries – but this was only for countries with integrated contourlines. So the next map update of countries like Spain, Norway, Turkey, Europe continent will require an update of the contourlines as well. Note that it can be temporarily for a few hours (up to 16 hours in case of Europe continent map, max 13-14 hours for other maps) that only the new contourlines are online, but the map that belongs to it is not updated yet.

 

The next Picture shows the coverage of LIDAR DEM sources in my maps after the update (picture by the creator of the DEM files https://sonny.4lima.de/ ). It’s the first time for quite a few eastern European countries to have LIDAR DEM data and first update for many parts in Italy as well as other countries. LIDAR DEM sources usually mean that the error in altitude is less than 2-3m even in forest (showing the altitude on the ground, while satellite sourced DEM sources usually have rather the altitude a bit below tree […]