[OSM-talk] OSM Mapnik not displaying

[Chris Morley]

Jon Burgess wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 12:28 +0100, Chris Morley wrote:
>> Can somebody help to find out what has gone wrong with my system? 
>> (Windows XP, ZoneAlarm Firewall).
>>
>> With Firefox 3 (which is generally working as expected) the Mapnik 
>> tiles at http://www.openstreetmap.org don't display - just the logo 
>> and "...more OSM coming soon" (yuk). Osmarender, the Cyclemap, NoNames 
>> all display ok. With Internet Explorer and Firefox 2, Mapnik is ok, 
>> but it is not with some other programs, 
>> http://www.informationfreeway.org, 
>> http://geo.topf.org/comparison/index.html and http://sautter.com/map/.
>>
>> This behaviour may have started when I had to re-install Firefox 2 to 
>> get the Yahoo image background in JOSM. The firewall doesn't report 
>> blocking anything relevant, as far as I can see.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
> 
> You say other applications work. This makes me think that maybe you
> accidentally added tile.openstreetmap.org to either adblock or blocked
> images from this domain. 

The display of images from tile.openstreetmap.org had indeed been 
turned off in Firefox (for no reason apparent to me).

Thanks for the help.


> If all else fails, try creating a new profile. 
> http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing+profiles
> 
> The Mapnik layer definitely works fine in FF3. I use it all the time.