[OSM-dev] MapOSMatic back online

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

Following our announcement this morning, we faced a sudden crash of our
web server VM. This has been fixed, and the service is now available
again.

Best regards,

Thomas

Le Wed, 18 Apr 2012 08:58:23 +0200,
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at enix.org> a écrit :

> Hello,
> 
> In September 2009, we launched MapOSMatic (http://www.maposmatic.org),
> a free web service that allows to render city maps on-demand based on
> OpenStreetMap data. Those city maps, divided into squares, are
> associated with a street index, making the process of locating a
> street on the map easier.
> 
> We are proud to announce today the launch of a new version of
> MapOSMatic, which is the result of significant development
> efforts. Amongst the new features:
> 
>  * The rendering of poster maps is now done on large standard paper
>    formats (A3, A2, A1, etc.), automatically chosen depending on the
>    geographical size of the city, instead of arbitrarily-sized papers
>    that were hard to print. The end result is close to commercial
>    folded maps;
> 
>  * The ability to render multi-page maps, where the map and street
>    index are split into several pages, for easier printing on regular
>    paper formats (A5, A4, US Letter). Those multi-page maps are
>    similar to commercial city booklets;
> 
>  * The availability of several rendering styles. For now, we provide
>    the standard OpenStreetMap.org style, several styles provided by
>    MapQuest, and a custom style more suitable for printing. In the
>    future, we expect to extend those styles, or even to let users
>    provide their own styles. Do not hesitate to contact us about
>    custom styles;
> 
>  * Improvements in the selection of cities: in the previous versions,
>    we were limited to OpenStreetMap areas of a certain administrative
>    level;
> 
>  * And many, many other smaller features and improvements: quality of
>    the renderings, better user interface to render maps, last OSM
>    database update date printed on the map, etc.
> 
> MapOSMatic is completely free software, distributed under the terms of
> the Affero General Public License v3. The project is available through
> Git repositories, has a mailing-list and an IRC channel. For details,
> see our About page (http://www.maposmatic.org/about), our wiki
> (http://wiki.maposmatic.org) and the Savannah project page
> (http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/maposmatic/).
> 
> In addition to the launch of this new version, we are also starting a
> donation campaign. The project is completely developed and maintained
> by volunteers, but we need funding to cover hardware costs and
> transportations costs to organize the developer meetings during which
> MapOSMatic improvements are implemented (see our blog at
> http://news.maposmatic.org). If you appreciate MapOSMatic, do not
> hesitate to help us by donating with PayPal on
> http://www.maposmatic.org/donate.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Thomas Petazzoni



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