[OSM-talk-be] IMPORTANT - OSM API upgrade - Read Only access mode from 09:00 UTC Fri 17th April

[Ben Laenen]

Forwarding for those who don't follow the international mailing list...


Snelle Nederlandse vertaling:

Dit weekend wordt de nieuwe OSM server geïnstalleerd en maken we ineens 
de omschakeling naar de nieuwe API 0.6. Dat wil zeggen dat het vanaf 
morgen 17 april om 11:00 Belgische tijd tot maandag 20 april niet 
mogelijk is om je wijzigingen te uploaden. Data downloaden zou meestal 
wel nog moeten lukken maar zal ook ernstige hinder ondervinden en op 
bepaalde momenten ook onmogelijk zijn.

Alle details hieronder in het Engels:


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Subject: [OSM-talk] IMPORTANT - OSM API upgrade - Read Only access mode 
from 09:00 UTC Fri 17th April
Date: Thursday 16 April 2009
From: "Andy Robinson \(blackadder-lists\)" <ajrlists at googlemail.com>
To: talk at openstreetmap.org

Dear OpenStreetMap Users,

This weekend sees the long awaited upgrade of our main API from version 
API 0.5 to API 0.6. This is a major development for the project and 
involves upgrades to both the hardware platform (the main OSM database) 
as well as the software that we all use to communicate with it.

In order to migrate the existing OSM database to the new server and 
software platform it is necessary to lock the OSM database to Read Only 
access, that means you will not be able to upload your new map edits to 
OSM once the current API is in read only mode.

Read only access will commence at 09:00 UTC Friday 17th April 2009 and 
is expected to last throughout the API upgrade period.

Completion of the API upgrade and database migration is scheduled for 
some time on Monday April 20th, however the exact time will depend upon 
how well progress goes over the weekend. It is also highly likely that 
there will be periods of total API downtime during the weekend as the 
upgrade is progressed. 

The front page of the wiki will be your best place to keep an eye on the
current status, or hang out in IRC at #OSM for hour by hour news, but 
please keep your questions to a minimum as our sysadmins team will be 
busy! Concrete news updates, when they are available, will be 
published.

The technical working group and the full API 0.6 development team have
worked long and hard to deliver this exciting new upgrade to the OSM
platform. I am sure you will wish to join me in thanking them all for 
their efforts and contribution to date and wish them the very best with 
the work over this weekend.

For more information about the changes please see the following wiki 
page:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Protocol_Version_0.6/Information


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For and on behalf of the OpenStreetMap Foundation Board

Andy Robinson
Secretary
OpenStreetMap Foundation
secretary at osmfoundation.org

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