(English) Map Updates and explanation on login — 6. May 2011

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Openmtbmap.org Membership explained

Okay, first of all explanations on the new system for posting comments and the required login.

As written last week, I could not / did not seem it fair, to continue to have an open comments form on openmtbmap.org and www.velomap.org.

 

As of Sunday, when you click on donations, you are taken to the membership options page, where you can donate money and after donating automatically get a link to the login page to create an account on openmtbmap.org. The system behind this is now working well and I haven’t noticed any errors.

 

If you previously donated 10 to 19€, you may add up your donation to a minimum of 20€ and drop me a mail to manually enter your donation into the system, so I can send you a login. If you donated 20€ or more, drop me a mail and I’ll send you a username/password. If you add up your previous donation to €50 or more, I’ll give you a lifelong membership account. (for as long as I run this site). Please send your request from the same […]

maggio 5th, 2011 | Leave a comment

(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 lots […]

aprile 29th, 2011 | Leave a comment
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