A small maintenance announcement. Tomorrow we will upgrade the Dutch OpenStreetMap infrastructure with a bit more recent hardware. This basically implies the existing yours server will be removed from the rack and there should be some DNS remapping done. While I can promise the new infrastructure will most likely be powered on at 11:00 CET, it is unlikely that yours will be running before Friday, main reason being: I could not get a hold of Lambertus in the last days.
Hi,
The API @ yournavigation.org is still down. Do you have an indication on when it’s back online? Thanks
For that to happen I need the help from Lambertus…
Hi all
Any news when the API is available again? Still all services are down 
Best regards
This is very unfortunate…
Long story short:
The webfrontend (yournavigation.org) runs on a sponsored server, organised by the local (Dutch) OSM community.
I went on holiday, an email came in asking me to organise things so that a new infrastructure could be installed. A new infrastructure got installed and the old server removed. Then I came back from holiday, big surprise, lot’s of panic mails in my inbox.
I’ve got copies from the old server and trying to get access to the new one. Unfortunately the one person who organises this does not have time. I don’t know when everything will be back.
I’m afraid the timing and organisation of this hardware upgrade is poorly planned.
Ok, a new server is now hosting the yournavigation website. You can visit it at http://144.76.224.55/index.php while I figure out how the change the DNS for yournavigation.org
DNS is fixed as is the webserver config, so everything is working again.
Yes … everything is working 
Thank you
Best regards
Hi Lambertus, and thanks for getting the service back online again. Unfortunately it is not working a 100% correctly since it came back online. Look at what the routing API returns as reported her [1]:
Return
{
"type": "LineString",
"crs": {
"type": "name",
"properties": {
"name": "urn:ogc:def:crs:OGC:1.3:CRS84"
}
},
"coordinates":
[
[8.629732, 61.491066]
,[8.629711, 61.491066]
...
,[8.719095, 61.501805]
,[8.720230, 61.501884]
], "properties": {
"distance": "6.640379",
"description": "To enable simple instructions add: 'instructions=1' as parameter to the URL",
"traveltime": "4812"
}
}
<br />
<b>Warning</b>: fopen(/home/lambertus/public_html/yours/cache-20141110.csv): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in <b>/var/www/api/1.0/gosmore.php</b> on line <b>382</b><br />
<br />
<b>Warning</b>: fopen(/home/lambertus/public_html/yours/cache-20141110.csv): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in <b>/var/www/api/1.0/gosmore.php</b> on line <b>389</b><br />
[1] https://github.com/Turistforeningen/leaflet-routing/issues/29
Hello. Please, help me with following issue
I use leaflet routing library (https://github.com/Turistforeningen/leaflet-routing), that use API from http://www.yournavigation.org. After DNS was fixed there still not possibility to build routing. I get invalid JSON in response https://github.com/Turistforeningen/leaflet-routing/issues/29#issuecomment-62360554
Best regards
Thanks for the reports. If fixed the error yesterday evening. Can you confirm it is working properly now?
Works like a charm Lambertus!
Has the Engine stopped working for the United States? It seems to work for Spain/Europe, but I get blank answers for coordinates in the US and Africa, Middle East, Japan
Here’s an example link:
http://www.yournavigation.org/api/dev/route.php?flat=29.4182919217556&flon=-98.50136285937737&tlat=25.46543882500975&tlon=-100.98375839648634&v=motorcar&fast=0&layer=mapnik
It’s up and running, again. Yay! Pehaps this is some downtime during a rebuild of the .pak files?
Good to see it’s back, the server which hosts north/south America was down for two days. I’m not aware of the cause.
Good and bad news:
The good:
The service is now processing almost 700.000 route requests per day, up from 550k requests in October last year, most of the requests being handled by only one sponsored server! I’m constantly amazed how well Gosmore scales
The bad:
One IP address alone is responsible for over 200k requests per day. The server has been sending warning headers along with the route result for several days but the high demand is still coming in. Unfortunately I’ll have to add this IP-address to the ban-list this evening, especially because it doesn’t adhere to the FUP which requests that the client identifies itself (so I can contact the owner in case of overuse, like now).
Is there a way to force the name finder to only match cities/suburbs? For example, entering “Eastern Creek, NSW, Australia” places the marker on the creek, and the point that it happens to use is not actually located in the suburb of that name. Thanks for the service!
According to the documentation you can’t search for cities/suburbs specifically. Toying with the search term might help a bit, providing e.g. “Eastern Creek 1, NSW, Australia” gives a different result.
Thanks. I will actually be using the API btw, but I haven’t tried it yet. It looks like there is hope - Nominatum allows me to query by city name (e.g city=“Eastern Creek”), and that DOES return the city information, including the coordinates of the centre point - it’s the centre point that I want! Am I missing something?
Back on the yournavigation.org demo site - I’ve noticed something very odd. If I compare the travel times between two identical routes, but using Fastest and Shortest, the travel time using Shortest is significantly less than Fastest. An example route is between “Newport, NSW” and “Avalon, NSW”. The Fastest and Shortest routes look identical, but there is a huge discrepancy in the travel time. (290s for Fastest, 126s for Shortest). Vehicle type is Motorcar.
EDIT: Sorry - I see that someone else has already reported this, here: http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=370782#p370782
I’m finding that the Fastest algorithm seems to give more realistic times than Shortest.