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Sorry I don't really understand this, how will this affect me and what I see?</div>
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Thanks</div>
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David</div>
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From: Grant Slater <<a href="mailto:openstreetmap@firefishy.com">openstreetmap@firefishy.com</a>></div>
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To: "talk-au" <<a href="mailto:talk-au@openstreetmap.org">talk-au@openstreetmap.org</a>>, <a href="mailto:nzopengis@googlegroups.com">nzopengis@googlegroups.com</a></div>
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Subject: [talk-au] New tile rendering server (Experimental)</div>
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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 18:18:49 +0100</div>
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Hi Oceania (Talk-AU and nzopengis),</div>
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I have just switched the default OpenStreetMap.org “Mapnik style” map</div>
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tiles for tile.openstreetmap.org in the Oceania region across to our</div>
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new rendering server.</div>
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The new rendering server has been tested and is now ready for</div>
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production. We’re migrating traffic over region-by-region and the</div>
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Oceania region is the first to go live. The countries in the Oceania</div>
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region affected are those with dark green links on this map:</div>
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<a href="http://dns.openstreetmap.org/tile.openstreetmap.org.html">http://dns.openstreetmap.org/tile.openstreetmap.org.html</a></div>
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In addition to new hardware, the rendering server also uses the new</div>
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“openstreetmap-carto” stylesheets. These are a complete re-write of</div>
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the XML stylesheets to use CartoCSS, making them easier for our</div>
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cartographers to work with.</div>
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Andy Allan’s great talk at State of the Map US described the reason</div>
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for the stylesheet re-write:</div>
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<a href="http://stateofthemap.us/saturday.html#schedule/saturday/putting-the-carto-into-openstreetmap-cartography">http://stateofthemap.us/saturday.html#schedule/saturday/putting-the-carto-into-openstreetmap-cartography</a></div>
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The map tiles will be slightly slower at medium-high zooms while the</div>
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server builds up its cache. The style is designed to look the same as</div>
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the current XML stylesheet.</div>
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The “openstreetmap-carto” stylesheet is maintained here:</div>
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<a href="https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto">https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto</a></div>
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Big Thank you to #osm-dev for helping draft this announcement.</div>
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Kind regards</div>
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Grant Slater</div>
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Part of the OSM Sysadmin Team</div>
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