[OSM-talk] cycle map not updating?

[john whelan]

An alternative is to use Maperitive and render on the local PC.  Its just a
matter of using the right rules for rendering but you do need an .OSM file
from the web unless you have a local copy.

Cheerio John

On 24 June 2010 12:53, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah. Also, as Toby says, it's pretty much "totally overloaded", and
> has been for the last few months.
>
> What's happened recently was that the updates broke for a few weeks,
> and were restarted last Wednesday. The disk cache then filled up
> completely on Friday, so there was only a small window for the tiles
> to be re-rendered. Space was freed up on Monday, and then rendering
> was stopped again on Wednesday for the next scheduled update. I
> estimate it would take about 10-12 days to update all the tiles, and
> there simply hasn't been very many days in the last week where the
> system has been updating - and because it wasn't updating for three
> weeks before that, some tiles are seriously out of date. They should
> sort themselves out, over the next week or so.
>
> As for the new server that's being mentioned, that's being set up at
> the moment. New host, new hardware, new software (mainly newer
> versions of mapnik and osm2pgsql). Unfortunately it's not as fast as
> I'd hoped, and I'm seriously concerned about whether it'll be able to
> take the load! Running osm2pgsql in slim mode is soaking up much of
> the hardware improvements. We'll see how it goes, but I'm confident
> the whole thing is moving in the right direction.
>
> It starts coming down to questions of time and money, and I only have
> a limited supply of both :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Shaun McDonald
> <shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk> wrote:
> > Hi Gregory,
> > Your a little out of date of the way that the cycle map is run. It uses
> the
> > live mapnk rendering, with no upload required. However it is still a
> weekly
> > update, and can take a week to fully update assuming that the disk
> doesn't
> > fill up first.
> > Shaun
> > On 24 Jun 2010, at 16:40, Gregory Williams wrote:
> >
> > Updates that I’ve made in the past week are now showing on zooms <= 12.
> It’s
> > not quite there for zooms > 12, but I suspect that that’s simply because
> the
> > tiles haven’t managed to upload to Andy’s web host yet from the machine
> > where he carries out the main rendering.
> >
> > I do remember seeing Andy tweeting recently that there’d been an issue
> with
> > updates for a while (during an upgrade IIRC???), so perhaps that may
> explain
> > it.
> >
> > I usually notice that changes I’ve made prior to the Wednesday are
> reflected
> > at all zoom levels by the following Friday.
> >
> > From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:
> talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On
> > Behalf Of Hillsman, Edward
> > Sent: 24 June 2010 16:19
> > To: talk at openstreetmap.org
> > Subject: [OSM-talk] cycle map not updating?
> >
> > Has the update frequency changed for OpenCycleMap? Some bike lanes added
> in
> > late May and early June still haven’t appeared yet.
> >
> > Ed Hillsman
> > Senior Research Associate
> > Center for Urban Transportation Research
> > University of South Florida
> > 4202 Fowler Ave., CUT100
> > Tampa, FL  33620-5375
> > 813-974-2977 (tel)
> > 813-974-5168 (fax)
> > hillsman at cutr.usf.edu
> > http://www.cutr.usf.edu
> >
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