Israel Hiking map

Communities ישראל (Israel)
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Access to my public Dropbox folder has been temporarily blocked due to high access load.
I hope we will hear back from Dimka or Mr_Israel regarding the hosting on osm.org.il

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Another copy of the map is currently uploading to Google Drive.

I hope we’ll find Google more reliable than Dropbox…

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Zeev/Harel
There’s a thread in groopy.co.il at http://www.groopy.co.il/forummessage.aspx?messageid=337483 about the map, and someone asked if I could write a script for online use with orux. I that OK?

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This map is creating quite a stir, and is appreciated by anyone viewing it.
It already attracted several novices to try and contribute to OSM - well done.
Would you like me to share it on more mapping-relevant forums? or is the traffic created too much as it is?

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Hi valley,

I think you can go ahead and create an online Orux script, you’ll probably need to change it once we find suitable hosting service though…
the only reason i see not to share the links is, as mentioned, the fact that we are not hosted yet (which is the reason for the traffic issue…)

I would recommend waiting until we find a host and then continue advertising (once we find a host, the older links will probably not work and I prefer to reduce the number of broken links related to this project), but again, this is just a recommendation… :slight_smile:

Harel M.

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Yes. Please wait with any automated download of the map tiles until we find a host that can handle the extra load.

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Zeev and Harel,

I’m fairly certain I can provide hosting. Please contact me directly so we can discuss the details.

Thanks,
Michael

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Hi Michael,

Thank you for your kind offer.

We should have followed-up earlier in this thread about the hosting of the Israel Hiking map on osm.org.il. It seems like the host is able to handle the load.
We have not tried yet to create the map on the server, so updates are still done manually.

An offline map for Oruxmaps is available on a Google Drive, and it too seems to handle the load well.
An offline map for OziExplorer is available on Dropbox, courtesy of Erez Gur.

Thanks again,
Zeev

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Harel/Zeev
Several people on the groopy forum have asked for a script that can work online with Orux.

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I understand that in the past you have created an XML file of map sources for the biking community.
Could you also add Israel Hiking to it?
If the server will handle the extra load, we could make that “online source” more widely known.
Thanks,
Zeev

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The problem is that I’m not sure about the legal status of some of the maps I have there.
The xml code for viewing your maps is simple and it should be attached to the existing onlinemapsources.xml in orux before the tag .

<onlinemapsource uid="80">
<name>Israel Hiking Map</name>
<url><![CDATA[osm.org.il/Israel%20Hiking/Tiles/{$z}/{$x}/{$y}.png]]></url>
<minzoom>7</minzoom>
<maxzoom>16</maxzoom>
<projection>MERCATORESFERICA</projection>
<servers></servers>
<httpparam name=""></httpparam>
<cacheable>1</cacheable>
<downloadable>1</downloadable>
<xop></xop>
<yop></yop>
<zop></zop>
<qop></qop>
</onlinemapsource>
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Zeev, thanks for the great news and the link! My offer stands if you need any help in the future.

Michael

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Hi Everyone,

maybe you can help me -
I’m working for the scouts and trying to build a website that will help our guys planning trips for the little kids.

I’m trying to use Zeev and Harel’s wonderful project.

I’m using Wordpress to build up the site and using certain plug-ins. I’m right now trying a specific one which is not working and I can’t understand why.
I’m guessing it’s a simple thing that I just can’t understand\see.

I’m attaching a link to a screenshot of the plug-in and maybe you guys can help me what to write inside in order for it to work (for my website to show the Israel hiking trail map):

http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/ee398/yuvami/question.png

Thank you!
Yuval

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I’m not entirely familiar with leaflet wordpress plug-in, and this is a long shot but it looks as if you placed “<” and “>” (triangular brakets) instead of “{” and “}” (curly brakets) in the tiles address.
If changing it does not work I would try and contact leaflet support or wordpress, which ever responds first.

Hope I helped.
Harel M.

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In other words, please try the following as the “Map Tile Url” for Wordpress Leaflet Map Plugin:

http://osm.org.il/IsraelHiking/Tiles/{z}/{x}/{y}.png

Note the use of “{z}” rather than “”

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Thanks a lot for the both of you, for the kind and fast reply.
I hope that will work.

Yuval

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not working…
I’m trying to reach the plug-in support, but if anyone has any idea what I’m doing wrong it will be appreciated.

the link to a screenshot of my latest try:
http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/ee398/yuvami/questionb.png

I tried a different plug-in called MapsMarkerPro - should be the best for openstreetmaps (hoped that would work) and still no success.
here is a screenshot of that:
http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/ee398/yuvami/mapsmarker.png

anyway, if anyone has any idea, it would be a great help.

I’m trying to get help from the plug-in developers as well.

I don’t know who is the OpenStreetMaps expert here, but I guess he is the one I’m looking for to help me.

Thank you all,

Yuval

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Hi Yuval,

Can you get any of the plug-ins to work with any of their default maps?
Once you have a working example, we can help trying to modify it for the Israel Hiking map.

Zeev

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Hi Zeev,

I figured it out with the help of the plug-in support team.

Apparently I wrote everything correctly, but the default location of the plug-in was Vienna, Austria. cause the IsraelHikingMap doesn’t have a tile for there, it gave an error message.

I changed the default location to Jerusalem (just by adding the right coordination) and it worked perfectly!

Thank you all for the kind help, and for the entire wonderful project,

Yuval

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Excellent!

By the way, the initial view for the Israel Hiking Map site is:

center: [31.773, 35.12],
zoom: 13,