<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">Strategic<br><br>Below is the thread kicking off the second issue for Strategic to delve into...<br><br>-Mikel<br><div> </div>== Mikel Maron ==<br>+254(0)724899738 @mikel s:mikelmaron<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://mapkibera.org/">http://mapkibera.org/</a></span><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Haiti">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Haiti</a></span><div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2">----- Forwarded Message ----<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Emilie Laffray <emilie.laffray@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">To:</span></b> Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@enix.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Iván Sánchez <ivan@sanchezortega.es>; Simone Cortesi <simone@cortesi.com>; contact@maposmatic.org; board@osmfoundation.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Fri, September 10, 2010 3:55:03 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: MapOSMatic looking for a new hosting<br></font><br>
Hello,<br><br>I am forwarding this to the board for further discussion.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/9/10 Thomas Petazzoni <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:thomas.petazzoni@enix.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:thomas.petazzoni@enix.org">thomas.petazzoni@enix.org</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hello Émilie, Simone and Ivan,<br>
<br>
I am contacting you as OSM Foundation board members that I know are<br>
aware of MapOSMatic and that Maxime and I had the chance to meet at<br>
SOTM in Girona.<br>
<br>
The MapOSMatic project is currently looking for a new hosting, and the<br>
MapOSMatic development team wanted to see whether the OSM Foundation<br>
could provide, or help providing, such a new hosting for MapOSMatic.<br>
<br>
Since the beginning of the project, we are hosted on a dedicated server<br>
that is a Intel dual-core 2 Ghz, 2 GB of RAM, 250 GB of standard SATA<br>
disk. Due to the increase of OSM data, the disk is now almost full (we<br>
even had to aggressively reduce the number of maps we keep in cache in<br>
order to save space) and will be completely full in the coming weeks<br>
(by coming, I mean 4-6 weeks, if not earlier).<br>
<br>
We were given access to a new hosting, with 4 GB of RAM, more disk<br>
space and presumably faster I/Os, but this hosting is in fact a Xen<br>
virtual machine, and the performances are really not up to what we<br>
need: it still needs almost one day just to apply the daily diffs that<br>
we have to use to keep our OSM database up-to-date with the official<br>
one. We've been fighting for the last two months trying to set up<br>
MapOSMatic on this new hosting, but now that the old server is going to<br>
be out of disk space fairly soon, we really need to find a reliable and<br>
powerful enough hosting solution.<br>
<br>
The current hosting solution on which <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://maposmatic.org">maposmatic.org</a> is running is<br>
being paid personaly by one of the developers of MapOSMatic. This is<br>
ok since it is a fairly low-end hosting which doesn't cost too much,<br>
but the hosting we need now is much bigger and therefore, much more<br>
expensive.<br>
<br>
So, we are looking for a dedicated hosting (with root access) that is<br>
capable of maintaining a complete OSM database up-to-date reasonably. It<br>
probably means at least 8 GB of RAM and a good I/O subsystem.<br>
<br>
Of course, we are willing to credit the OSM Foundation and/or the<br>
company providing the hosting on the MapOSMatic website.<br>
<br>
FWIW, we are currently working on a second generation of MapOSMatic,<br>
with the following features :<br>
<br>
* The user can now select the paper size on which he would like to<br>
render the map. Depending on the geographic area selected,<br>
MapOSMatic automatically tells the user which paper sizes are<br>
possible, and will then automatically adapt the geographic area so<br>
that the paper area is completely filled. This is already<br>
implemented;<br>
<br>
* The user is now able to select amongst different Mapnik stylesheets.<br>
This is already implemented.<br>
<br>
* The user can now select between different rendering styles :<br>
<br>
-> Plain map. No street index is produced, just the map, with a<br>
little header at the top, and the grid. This is already<br>
implemented.<br>
<br>
-> Map with index. Instead of having the index as a second page,<br>
the index is now integrated in the map, either at the bottom or<br>
to the right of the map. This is currently being finalized.<br>
<br>
-> Booklet rendering, where the map and index is divided into A5 or<br>
A4 pages, for easier printing on consumer-type printers. This is<br>
currently being developed, quite a lot of work remains to be<br>
done.<br>
<br>
However, before we can deploy those new features, we need to solve the<br>
hosting problem that we currently have.<br>
<br>
Do you think you can help us ?<br>
<br>
Thank you very much,<br>
<br>
Thomas<br>
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