[talk-au] FW: OSM Australia Garmin downloads have gone bung ?

[Matt White]

Sorry for the delayed response, and the missed emails people have been 
sending... I sort of dropped out of the OSM thing for a bit there (the 
whole license thing gave me the shits, so I walked away for a while), 
but I'm slowly getting back into it.

OK, so hopefully the generation is back on it's feet and working again - 
there is a full set available at the moment, but they were done 
semi-manually. The automated generation run kicks off tonight, but it 
seems that parts of the process are now taking longer than they used to, 
so the new file from tonight's generation probably won't start appearing 
until 7am Saturday. It's seems to be taking around 6 hours to generate 
the various maps, then a fair amount of time to upload the 400 Mb of 
files on my works poor hammered ADSL internet connection (the whole 
thing is throttled uploads, as I have to let work backup it's data as 
well at the same time - bring on the NBN....).

Also, for the moment, I am no longer uploading the individual 
australia.osm and newzealand.osm files - they are available as single 
files from Frederick Ramm's site 
(http://download.geofabrik.de/openstreetmap/australia-oceania/), so I 
don't see much point in chewing another 400mb upload as well

Cheers

Matt

www.osmaustralia.org