Actually, I donât think itâs OSMâs 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 donât 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
I assume you mean the main OSM website with â.com website donate buttonâ? 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
Thanks btw!
PS. Iâm new to donations and donate buttons etc. Is it customary to send a thanks email to for every donation?
I donât 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.
2012/06/28 18:45 here in Asia and all I get on the main page are the âLoading data, please waitâ 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?
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 shouldnât be seeing the spinning wheels for long and at least Firefox should work just fine. Canât reproduce your problem here, sorry.
I am trying to get some maps of France from the website. But all I get on the main page are the âLoading data, please waitâ 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.
Nico, user âalimamoâ describes the same problem above. But I canât reproduce it. Each time I open the website the data is loaded (âspinning wheelsâ) within a few seconds, this is the case at work and at home (Windows and Linux). I have no clue why the site responds this way for you.
If you canât load this file then please post the result from the following command:
If you use Windows, using a command prompt: tracert osm.pleiades.uni-wuppertal.de
This problem is neatly explained if you find that OpenLayers has just released a new version (2.12) that deprecates the OpenLayers.loadURL function
Edit: I replaced the loadURL() with Request.Get() function and now it works again. I guess I didnât encounter this problem because I probably still had an older version of OpenLayers in my browser cache. This problem probably explains why the server was so relaxed today as well.
Here it seems to hang forever at âChecking existing mapsâŚâ. Firefox and Opera, cache cleared, tried selecting a whole country and just a single tile.
Unfortunately I have to come back to the âholeâ in Paris I have reported earlier. Even in the latest update, it is still there although we now end up in Texas and Portugal. Iâve tried to follow this up on the Forum, but a lot has happened in the meantime and Iâm not sure about the status.
Have you considered to create (European) areas, like Benelux, British Isles, Iberian Peninsula, The Alps and Scandinavia. You already have linked the tiles to countries, so creating areas could be a combination of those existing countries. Switzerland and Austria would cover the Alps, Spain and Portugal for the Iberian Peninsula. Youâll get the point
Obviously the next question will be the various regions in the US, like New England and the Midwest, but the locals over there will be able to tell which states form those regions. Once the mechanism is setup correctly adding more areas should not be too difficult.
You can probably see how often manual selections are requested and which tiles that are. That would give an impression of the need for these areas.
Iâve been thinking about some sort of permalink function before. I donât think that adding more pull-down menuâs with many random cryptic descriptions would be very helpful, so perhaps a wiki page that lists these permalinks with a description and e.g. screenshot would be nice? Users could be providing the contentâŚ
Besides permalinks, you are aware that you can now use the mouse-drag method in manual tile selection mode to quickly select regions like the Alps without any effort?
I donât really have an overview of which tiles or areas are selected most as I donât keep records of which tile number was associated with which coordinates and, on top of that, the tile-coordinates drift around. Though I know that the usual suspects are the well mapped and holiday countries like Germany, Netherlands, UK, Italy etc.