Maps largely online again, and yehaa with fully working address search

After a long downtime I finally got hold of GWDG and they will mirror me maps. Yeeehaa. Nearly all maps are online right now. The contourlines will follow up on Monday and the few maps missing will follow on next map update (some did not compile cleanly)

https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/openstreetmap/openmtbmap/

Also the Velomap will follow up soonish here.

 

Also address search is now fully encoded in mkgmap, so no more crazy workarounds needed and also working in Basecamp and all GPS (like Dakota, Oregon or Nuvi). Probably not all addresses from OSM are correctly read in right now, but than can only be a matter of a few weeks. No searching for housenumbers yet though. This will probably really boost address information in OSM…

 

February 12th, 2011 | 16 comments

Openmtbmap Download Server Down – Background Info

Since about 10 days the server is down, and well to say I'm pretty pissed of myself about not being able to publish new maps. Especially as the VeloMap creation process is broken since 18 January too and no maps can be downloaded. Here some FAQ regarding the downtime. The old server seems to have crashed completly and impossible to get it back up.

Though I have no exact traffic counts, because I can only guestimate the number of downloads (I only have statictics for people donwloading via the map download page and not people getting maps directly without redirection from the server, I know that alone by clicks on the Map Download page, on some days last summer more than 600GB of maps were downloaded (that was about 500-600 downloads of Germany, 300x Italy, and so on). Next summer that will be twice the traffic from last summer, by OSM data doubling alone (not taking into account that more people use the maps, as the homepage itself traffic grows consistently — currently bout 2000 visitors a day even though no maps available)

 

I will not offer Torrents for download, because

a) it would still need a very […]

February 5th, 2011 | 35 comments
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