[OSM-newbies] Openstreetmap.org seems to have just had a nap...

[Someoneelse]

Russ Phillips wrote:
> A more detailed status is given on the following page:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Platform_Status
> 

Thanks. Unfortunately "there have been some intermittent failures 
preventing updates" on that page doesn't say which bit failed and 
whether it's likely to fail again.

> The status comes from this page:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:Platform_Status
> which is edited by hand. From the page:
> 
> "This template appears as a little status indicator on the Main Page
> and also the Platform Status and Servers pages.
> 
> Please update this template if you know what the status of the OSM
> platform is. If servers seem to be slow or down, you could verify this
> by asking others on IRC and checking downforeveryoneorjustme.com - but
> in general be bold! Update this! It won't reflect the current state of
> the platform unless people update it.

I checked downforeveryoneorjustme before posting the original message to 
check that the main page appeared down at least somewhere else. 
Unfortunately (other than noticing that the main page is now back) I 
have no idea which bit is struggling - I can see in Potlatch that the 
NPE background loads OK but that existing data either partially or 
completely doesn't, so I'm guessing it's the API, but really can't add 
any more detail - instead of "asking others on IRC" I posted here...

As an experiment I downloaded the latest JOSM and tried downloading a 
very small area of data in there - that just said "No data imported" 
(maybe it always does that; I don't know).  I also downloaded Merkaartor 
which was able to download data for a couple of km^2 without problems 
and also able to upload a small change - so I'm confused, hence the 
original question.