Map Updates 24. June 2011

Well just as a short note. I indeed updated the maps as always on Thursday night. However as I'm currently biking around Innsbruck (BTW – forget Willi Hofer, his difficulty notations are way overstated – his most difficult tours are much easier than stuff I expected based on descriptions) I don't have much time and am too tired to really work in the evening. Therefore a proper update notice on next map update.

 

As you may have noted, I changed 50€ subscription from lifetime to 5 years – this of course only affects new subscribers/members and decided to work on openmtbmap.org full time. So expect many cool changes over the next month (but then in reality over the last 4-5 months I did already work more than 40-50hours every ween on improving openmtmap.org website and maps.

Biggest change is that from July onwards (cannot say exact date) I will have adds by Netzathleten.de (same provider that puts adds on mtb-news.de. So I hope the adds are well bicycle focussed. I don't want to have advertisements that are really of focus. So I hope that the sales staff at netzathleten does a good job in channelling in adverts that are […]

Map Updates 17. June 2011

Well this time (finally at last) the main work was done on the VeloMaps (probably online from Saturday onwards as the mirror will not get them tonight). I updated them from ground up more or less, so they got all the changes the Openmtbmaps benefitted from over the last 2 month. This also means the VeloMaps are now Nüvi compatible. I really should have updated it simultaneously with the Openmtmbap – it took me bout 30 hours to track all bugs down…

Besides I don't delete private ways any more, if they got sac_scale or mtb:scale information. I think this is a good compromise. But basically ways that are private, are of not much relevance to a map in my eyes, and if I don't delete them, places like Garmisch Partenkirchen start to look really bad (as someone tracked all ways in peoples private backyards). I also updated the legend to have a big city section, so for those that have problems finding cities in their Oregon search, they can reply hear now and say what cities are not found, I added the type to the city name for easy bugtracking.

Also for zoom resolution 18 there were problems […]