[OSM-talk] Cyclemap not updated for 2 weeks?

[Dave Stubbs]

On Feb 1, 2008 8:37 AM, Foppe Benedictus <foppe.benedictus at knkv.net> wrote:
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> Hello Andy,
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> I just asked in IRC if somebody knew if the cyclemap was not updated the
> last 2 weeks, they came up with the why don't you email him solution, so
> here it is..
> No offence, but I just want to know if I am tagging something wrong or
> there went something wrong or you not having time to do it?
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Yeah, sorry about this, we upgraded mapnik to get new improved
rendering, and had a small issue where it dropped single digit
references... which has now been fixed. The new rendering looks nicer
than before, it's all sparkly and stuff. Unfortunately Andy is
currently away snowboarding, and I don't have the webhost password to
upload the new tiles. I'll make sure he does the sync the second he
gets back (I think on Sunday).
If you let me know what is was you added I can take a look on the new tiles.

On a better note, next Wednesday we get a test of the new and improved
rendering process which should mean new tiles start appearing before
the end of the day rather than the 3 days it's been taking recently.
This is a combination of 4x more CPU power, 8x more RAM, and block
tile rendering... all of which makes the actual tile rendering about
15x faster. But we still have to wait while the planet downloads, and
the planet gets imported into the DB, which takes about 6 times longer
than actually rendering.

Dave