[OSM-talk] Standard OSM map refreshing

[Craig Wallace]

On 2013-04-22 21:39, Severin MENARD wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Leading the HOT Activation
> <http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates/2013-04-10_hot_activation_in_central_african_republic> for
> the Central African Republic
> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Central_African_Republic>,
> I have edited data all over the country since. Focusing on the primary
> road network, I figured out the update of Standard OSM map are quite
> different between the zoom scales. Eg with this small city
> <http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=6.4835&lon=17.4479&zoom=14&layers=M>.
> Z10, 13 and 14 have already the changes made on April 14th while z11,
> 12, 15,16, 17 not yet. Is there a fixed worldwide rule for this or is it
> continent/country/area based? I (quickly) looked for a page for this but
> did not find it, is there an official information about this?

The standard map on openstreetmap.org usually updates within a few 
minutes for most zoom levels, but may take longer if the servers are busy.
If its not updating for you after a few hours or days, you might be 
looking a cached copy in your browser. Depends on your browser, but 
pressing Ctrl+F5 or Shift+F5 should force a refresh, clearing the cache.

Note that other OSM based maps may take much longer to update, eg the 
cycle map sometimes takes a few weeks.

See this question and answers for more details: 
https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/102/i-have-made-edits-but-they-dont-show-up-on-the-map

Craig