Map Updates 21. October 2011

Well, on the last map update I asked for a new server, luckily I got one now from a donor, and actually last weeks updates already came from the new render server (which is also about 25% quicker than the older one). Moving the server luckily did not take that much time (about half a day until everything ran smooth). Thanks for all people that proposed me help.

As for the map updates. The biggest change is that mkgmap got a better POI handling for Polygons. Therefore I could take in some more POI (like playgrounds) that I had taken out before because they cluttered the map, and now work better (essentially the placement of the POI for Polygons/Multipolygons got set on the entrance instead of the middle, and for Multipolygons only 1 POI is created, and not one for each polygon).

On the Velomap I fixed an old bug (thanks for bringing it up to csperr) that had all highway=footway & sac_scale=mountain_hiking displayed as rivers (actually such ways are usually highway=path, so it was pretty rare). Also when updating the colors of the traditional Desktop layout, I had mixed up colors for motorways (in resolution 24) and […]

Map Updates 5. October 2011

Well over the last weeks I had quite a lot to do, so I never got around writing the changes to the maps. So here we go. I hope I remember at least 50% of the changes.

First of all, as you may have noticed, Openmtbmap.org is now also available in Italian. Big thank goes to User "Miellino" (you can find him on here, as well as on mtb-forum.it). It's a huge effort translating the whole site, so fat props to his efforts of not only the translation but also the work he does for OSM in Italy. If you meet him up, please buy him a couple of beers (I'll do if I get the chance…).

 

Then many of you have noticed that the last map update went a bit wrong, and in some countries tiles were missing. That happened as soon as somewhere a double decimal (like 45.54.4) showed up in either elevation or population key. For right now I downgraded the mkgmap version until the bug gets sorted (it's faulty data, but of course mkgmap should not crash on this). Before mkgmap would simply not read in any values with decimal points, so they were […]