NOTICE: Upcoming Emergency Maintenance / Downtime 20 March

On Tuesday 20th of March 2012 between 13:45 and 16:15 (GMT / UTC) the
primary database server will unavailable due to emergency maintenance.

The following services WILL be affected:

  • www.openstreetmap.org web site will not allow user login or edits
    (Potlatch). [1]
  • API and map database editing (using JOSM, Merkaartor etc.) will be
    unavailable.
  • planet.openstreetmap.org will be available but no new diffs will be
    generated during the outage.
    *** Forum (no logins)**
  • trac (bug-tracker, no logins)
  • help.openstreetmap.org (no logins)

Other services will NOT be affected - all of the following are
expected to function normally:

  • tile serving (“View The Map” & “Export”)
  • Wiki
  • Nominatim (search)
  • mailing lists
  • subversion and git (source code repositories)
  • donate.openstreetmap.org

Technical: Database Server Smaug: Replacing faulty motherboard.
Supplier Engineer Onsite. We have contingency hardware available.

1: Maps will still be viewable on the openstreetmap.org homepage and
on other people’s websites.

Sincerely
Grant Slater
On behalf of the OpenStreetMap sysadmin team