[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Greetings and a question ...

[Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)]

Jay,

Welcome to the list.

The Mapnik layer (default view of the map) is normally updated quite
quickly, as you say within an hour or two for most zoom levels, however if
the timing sniffs anywhere near a Wednesday/Thursday its very likely to
impacted by the fact that Mapnik is based upon the weekly planet file and if
that's being created/imported and can/will impact tile rendering.

Osmarender doesn't rely on planet quite so much so that's why you may find
mapping on that and not on the mapnik layer on any given day. You can also
force an osmarender redraw of the area you are interested in as soon as you
have uploaded the data. Use http://tah.openstreetmap.org/ to do that.

Also note that when osmarender rerenders it rerenders all tiles from zoom 12
and higher at the same time. For mapnik its done differently so you may see
a different status at different mapnik zoom levels.

Cheers

Andy  

>-----Original Message-----
>From: talk-gb-westmidlands-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb-
>westmidlands-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Jay Eames
>Sent: 28 May 2009 10:10 AM
>To: talk-gb-westmidlands
>Subject: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Greetings and a question ...
>
>Hi there all,
>
>I am new to OSM, and have started slowly mapping around my native area of
>Stone/Stafford. As I have the software on my phone, I can create tracks
>easily as I drive to/from work etc, rather than having to remember to pick
>up a GPS unit! Unfortunately my work commitments mean it will be difficult
>to attend events, but I will try where possible ...
>
>Still working my way through things, however I have a question about the
>main map. I have uploaded a couple of tracks now, and converted them over
>to mapping. The first one updated on the map fine in a couple of hours,
>however the second one I did has yet to render on the Mapnik layer (+24
>hours now), but it is there on the Osmarender layer.
>
>The question is, is this delay normal, or is there something else that I
>need to do to get it to update?
>
>Jay
>
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