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

[Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)]

Since the move to API0.6 a week ago there have been ongoing teething issues
which make the platform periodically either slow, timing out or resulting in
internal server error responses. Obviously the sysadmins try to catch these
and fix them as they happen but in some case, since our fine folk are all
volunteers, it can be a few hours before a fix is sorted and the platform
works normally again. I think this is likely to be the case for the next few
weeks. It's not always clear there is a problem that affects everyone and
hence sometimes the status page may not reflect exactly what users are
experiencing. Treat the status line as a general guide on the platform
status but that in the next few weeks it might not be totally reliable all
the time.

Cheers

Andy

>-----Original Message-----
>From: newbies-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:newbies-
>bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Someoneelse
>Sent: 27 April 2009 5:29 PM
>To: russ at phillipsuk.org; newbies at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] Openstreetmap.org seems to have just had a
>nap...
>
>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.
>
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