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General talk
1520

The new site is a big improvement in usability!

One minor thing though, there is small hole when I preselect Germany, near Chemnitz.

That is the area where we will be going on holiday next month. Obviously I can manually select that tile, but I don’t need it right now so I won’t request it to keep the server happy :wink:

1521

Thanks Lambertus, ctrl-F5 has worked… :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

1522

Yes, strange that the country/tile matching algorithm is missing that tile, but the algorithm is quite complex and I don’t really feel like debugging at the moment :expressionless: Luckily the manual selection works fine :wink:

Don’t worry about the server, it’s doing fine right now. Besides, the Germany map with the Chemnitz tile added is already available on the server.

1523

Hey Lambertus, Congratulations on the new website. It works even better then the old one. Nice.

It does however does not have the latest OSM data yet. I added information 5 days ago that shows on the OSM site, but does not download yet thru openstreetmap.nl. Just curious, what can I expect for data updates.

Also saw the post for JaVaWa. That is a nice addition to my tools. Also very nice to get past the data set renaming issue.

KP

1524

Thanks, KPost. The age of the data is shown below the map. In this case the data is from June 20th (well, actually, to be safe substract a day, so June 19th). A new update is started tomorrow when things have calmed down a bit.

BTW: the server is in throttling mode because the disk is full. About 500 (oops) 300 maps have been created (and many more downloaded) since yesterday evening. You guys are beasts :smiley:

1525

Hope those beasts also noticed the new donation button! :roll_eyes:

1526

Haha, ligfietser :smiley: No need to point to the obvious, I’ve already received two donations which allows me to buy you a beer or wine someday :wink: About 10% of the maps created so far are OpenFietsmap Lite maps.

I appreciate a donation, the button is there, but don’t feel bad if you don’t or can’t. It’s a hobby afterall. I’d rather see people improve OpenStreetMap by doing some mapping or uploading tracklogs as a way of saying ‘thank you’.

1527

LOL!

Seems like the whole world wants a new map. The harddisks are maxed-out both in performance and in space-usage, Apache is serving tiles at 100Mbit and the CPU’s are doing what they can whenever the disks have a little breathing room to provide the data… 2500 unique visitors (ok, so not the whole world, but still a lot anyway) and nearly 300 GB traffic on one day.

I haven’t seen this in a long while. :slight_smile:

1528

I can only predict it is going to get a whole lot busier. I have been looking at OSM many times over the years, but it was always too much of a hassle to actually use it. A good link between all that information and many Garmin users seemed to be missing. It was never really convenient to say the least. With this website, especially with the new update, that link is there and now everybody can get their maps easily. I may have missed it, but I do not see on the main OSM website a big red button that says go here to get your Garmin maps. Instead there is the “export” tab, which really is not doing much for most users I would guess.

Karst

BTW, is your donate button going to the same place as the .com website donate button??

1529

Actually, I don’t think it’s OSM’s task to make the data available in every thinkable convenient format. OSM is about data gathering and making it available in planet form (XML or PBF format). Then third parties (like me) can do what they like with that data. I don’t even think the Mapnik slippy map on the frontpage is something that should concern OSM, but it shows what OSM is capable of, which is important to get new mappers. Anyway, this is what I think :confused:

I assume you mean the main OSM website with ‘.com website donate button’? In that case: No. The donatebutton on my website is for me personally. I do intend on share a portion of the funds there with the projects I used for the website, but also to buy my girlfriend a nice dinner to make up a little for all the time I spent on developing this site :wink:

Thanks btw! :slight_smile:

PS. I’m new to donations and donate buttons etc. Is it customary to send a thanks email to for every donation?

1530

If i understand everything correctly then the OpenStreetMap is just the data and the TYP-file is the layout file. For the moment we only have the TYP-file from Mapnik available, is it possible to add this one (http://www.avdweb.nl/gps/garmin/improved-garmin-map-view-with-typ-files.html) to as an option? As it shows a good difference in colors and stuff… (on http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/)

I tried the question part: http://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/13844/can-i-make-my-own-garmin-maps-from-osm-data-and-my-own-typ-file

1531

I don’t think that typ file is 100% compatible with the mkgmap styles. You can try to use it yourself by adjusting the Family ID (2000) Product ID (6) with a typ file editor and rename it to mapnik.typ 2000.typ and see how it looks on your map.

1532

Yes, you can redirect the donator after payment to a specific thank you url.

1533

Shouldn’t that be 2000.typ? At least that’s the name of the file on the server…

Thanks for that. Will look into it.

1534

Ah yes, 2000.typ it is :roll_eyes:

1535

2012/06/28 18:45 here in Asia and all I get on the main page are the “Loading data, please wait” messages with the spinning wheels.
(Chrome and Firefox)

Multiple refreshes and cache emptying does not seem to help. Is the problem on my end, or perhaps yours due to the mad rush for maps?

Thanks for all your work.

1536

When you use JaVaWa GMTK to add or replace a TYP file you don’t have to bother about ID’s and file names; that is taken care of automatically.

1537

When the server is busy you might see some delay, but most times I have to wait it is the OpenLayers server that is slow in serving the OpenLayers JS library. In the statistics I see a dramatic reduction in activity since about 02:00 CET today, before that it was indeed a continuous mad rush for maps. At 02:00 the request queue was empty again and after that the server is only doing sporadic work which is likely to pick-up again this afternoon.

So, you shouldn’t be seeing the spinning wheels for long and at least Firefox should work just fine. Can’t reproduce your problem here, sorry.

1538

Hello Lambertus,

I am trying to get some maps of France from the website. But all I get on the main page are the “Loading data, please wait” messages with the spinning wheels.
(Chrome, IE, Maxthon and Firefox) Is it too busy on the website or the server is overloaded?

At which time it is less crowded? So i can make a connection.

Regards Nico

1539

Same problem here, this is the error:

OpenLayers.loadURL is not a function
http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/routable.js
Line 162