[OSM-talk] Updating of slippy map

[Dirk-Lüder Kreie]

Steve Chilton schrieb:
> Can someone at the cutting edge please update us (via list or wiki)
> on where we are at with the excellent new slippy implementation? 
> There are now 3 options in the OSM slippy interface (and others
> without the interface), which have different amounts of information. 
> What I'd like to know is what the timescale/procedure is for each
> one's coverage increase? Also what will the procedure be for updating
> of the tiles as new information is added?

Well I'm currently one of the top contributors to the Osmarender layer
in the slippy map, and I can say the data is of mixed quality,
timescale-wise, because the tiles are rendered at the Zoom=12 level by
the tiles at home clients. the tiles at lower zooms, covering bigger areas
are updated infrequently by the osmathome.bandnet.org server itself.
OJW has more details on that topic.

> I have been working on mapping in a couple of different areas and
> need to pull down current data to work with. It obviously helps
> tremendously if the view I have before bringing down to JOSM is as
> complete and up-to-date as possible so that sensible planning of new
> activity can take place. Obviously I can download to JOSM and then
> render myself with osmarender but that is a whole extra stage. NB: I
> have looked at osm at home etc on wiki and don't think I am able to 
> contribute to tat process at present.

You can always contact someone on IRC (me, deelkar, for instance) to ask
them to render certain areas on the map, this will take about 15-45
minutes per tile (and subtiles to zoom=17), depending on the amount of
data present in that tile's area.

Another possibility would be to download data into JOSM with the
mappaint plugin, and plan from there. There you always have the most
recent data.

HTH
Dirk-Lüder "Deelkar" Kreie