(English) Map Updates 29.4.2011 and changes to the homepage

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Fist of all regarding the map updates.

No major changes this week. Changes include better naming of mountain passes (include altitude), and lil changes on altitude inclusion for summits/mountains. Foot/Walking routes with distance>12 are now rendered as hiking routes.

For next weeks update there will be a size reduction of 3-4% (well that also means a bit better performance) and maybe a solution to the streetname labels disappearing on Oregons / 62 series (without beta firmware) and edge 800 (there is no firmware that works yet).

The bigger changes are related to the server of the openmtbmaps. I switched from Apache to Nginx to improve the performance, and hopefully for the next year have no more downtimes. I also changed the caching mechanism. In a few days I will block comments on all pages and either open up a support forum, or some special pages to drop comments. However there will be a change. I'll only allow people to comment who have donated 20€ or more to openmtbmap.org.

There are several reasons for this. First is that I don't really want to spend […]

(English) Map Updates 21. April 2011

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First of all some OSM related news. I think most of you have noticed it already, if you login into Openstreetmap you now first have to decline or accept the CT and ODBL license. Notice if you are somehow unsatisfied with the switch you can decline now, and still accept later.

For all German speakers, there is a nice post by Jochen Topf who declined the odbl/CT  laying out his reasons (note Jochen Topf works for Geofabrik, that is in general very Pro odbl, and has for example written the first book about OSM (cannot remember the title right now):

 

I completly share his point of view, and hope that many people click on the decline button. If there is a sufficiently big group, the license change can be stopped. For me there is simply no need at all to switch the license and work with all the trouble it causes.

 

As for the maps, I worked nearly 20 hours on improving certain details of the map, here is a non complete list of changes.

Remove uphill scale on resolution 22. […]