A rendering machine in full operation 24/7 in this excessive heat without air conditioning would be pure masochism.
Therefore – please be patient until it gets a little cooler…
Thank you for your understanding
and
Best regards, Christian
8th of July 2025: Update for Germany and Europe is online
Most important change:
The overall map of Germany was discontinued.
Reason: This map has turned into a resource monster over the 13 years since the OAM was created – in other words, it has become far too huge. Creating the map takes a whopping 3 days, during which it blocks the workstation, and the download and memory usage on smartphones is beyond any reasonable level.
It is also pointless to create the map only 2-3 times a year as the maps of the underlying federal states already contain different data in some cases, resulting in ghost objects.
The overview maps Germany-North and Germany-South have been extended in terms of coverage and will continue to be created in the same detail as the federal state maps and at the same interval.
Germany-Mid is no longer required and is also omitted.
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The WestAfrica map has become too large over time and will therefore be split up:
WestAfrica (incl. Senegal Gambia, GuineBissau, Guinee, SierraLeone, Liberia)
Cote-d-Ivoire
Ghana-Togo-Benin
This makes downloading easier and most APPs can now load several maps automatically anyway, so handling partial maps is no problem.
Best regards
Your OAM-Team
Dear OpenAndroMaps community,
As in previous years, we will be releasing a completely new set of maps at the beginning of January so that we can start planning our tours for the new year.
Our special thanks go to all our supporters who contribute to keeping the OAM alive with their donations, bug reports and ideas.
We would like to wish you
A happy, trouble-free and active year 2025
Your OpenAndroMaps team
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We will be moving the website to a web account at Hetzner in the next 2 weeks.
A complete copy of OpenAndroMaps as a test site is already running there to our complete satisfaction.
Now, the move itself is not a big deal, but we are also moving the externally hosted domain to Hetzner and this can lead to outages.
So if this site is unavailable for a few hours because the new name servers first have to be cached around the globe.
Update 13.Nov.2024: Website moved
Update 20.Nov.2024: Domain Transfer done
Our test server has been hacked again and attacks have been launched against thousands of other servers.
It’s understandable that our hoster, Hetzner, doesn’t like this at all.
I have now completely deleted the (modern, supposedly secure) test server.
The live server with an economical, ancient operating system is still running without complaint, but it’s only a matter of time before it will also fall.
Unfortunately, with the ever-increasing level of professional cyberterrorism it is no longer possible for non-specialists, even with in-depth knowledge, to navigate the Internet safely and offer content.
Therefore:
I will try to maintain the service here as far as possible – but it will probably not be possible to maintain my own cloud server.
This means the following in detail:
For now, the download tables, which until now have been based on the fantastic foo-table-plugin, will be converted to normal html, called Accordeon-Falter. The functionality for downloads and direct installation will be fully retained. Only the usability and loading speed suffers somewhat.
Why: The plugin has not been maintained for many years, I myself have adapted it twice to new php versions, but now it is over because a plugin that is not officially maintained is an extreme security risk.
Furthermore I will try to move the website to a normal website account at Hetzner to at least eliminate the hacks below the website on operating system level.
This will certainly mean a massive slowdown in loading speeds.
If this site is taken down (certainly not through my fault) please bookmark the direct download link on the GWDG server:
https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/openstreetmap/openandromaps/mapsV5/
If need be, you will also find a “read.me” with messages next to the maps
I have to admit that I’m getting a bit tired of the whole thing
Your Christian from OAM
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The maps of India and Malaysia-Indonesia have become much too large over time (significantly >2GB) and will therefore be split into smaller parts:
India will be split into
Malaysia-Indonesia into
This makes downloading easier and most apps can now load multiple maps automatically, so handling partial maps is no problem at all.
Best regards
Your OAM team
I installed a new, very professional firewall with spam protection – its not free, but there’s no alternative.
A nice bonus is that the system is also GDPR-compliant – whatever you may think of that.
I hope that
a.) Life will become easier for us admins
and above all it
b.) there are no more annoying blockades of legitimate users, a situation that is/was very unpleasant for everyone.
The update plan for the maps this summer will be published separately.
So long,
Your OpenAndroMaps team
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In short:
The resolving of the SuperRoutes for the hiking trails is finished – similar to the cycle superroutes, which takes us into the waters of the route rules of Lonvia/Waymarkedtrails sind, as far as possible.
The resolution of the super routes has been rewritten to the best of my knowledge and belief – but I have to say that not every creativity in the OSM data mischmasch can be taken into account.
An interesting development is the new class of long-distance/rapid cycle routes
The internal discussion with all background information (mixed German/English) can be found here.
Also the render themes by Tobias = Elevate/Elements (Forum)
and those from
JohnPercy = VoluntaryUK (Forum) and Website
have been further improved – e.g. the contour lines are now rendered as curves.
In addition, it should be said that very extensive changes in the map structure were necessary and that it is possible that small errors have crept in. Please do not hesitate to report such errors in the forum.
We wish you beautiful tours in autumn
the team of OpenAndroMaps
What’s coming up at OAM:
The resolving of the SuperRoutes for the hiking trails is finished – similar to the cycle superroutes, which takes us into the waters of the route rules of Lonvia/Waymarkedtrails sind, as far as possible.
An interesting development is the new class of long-distance/rapid cycle routes that are being built in NL/DE/BE/USA and also mapped in OpenStreetMap as cycle_highway=yes. These expressways are less for leisure than for commuting/commuting/shopping.
Therefore, in future we will display the two types of cycle paths (leisure versa commuting=rapid cycle routes) independently from each other and, if applicable, on a separate layer, depending on the render theme.
The preparations for this from our side are already in the late beta stage and we will, if everything runs well, put a new map set with the corresponding render themes online at the beginning or mid of September.
The internal discussion with all background information (mixed German/English) can be found here.
Have a nice summer
The Team of OpenAndroMaps
All maps are now re-rendered and available for download.
The Taiwan map has now also been updated, the programmer of the Mapsforge library was so kind to adapt the map writer to the enormous density of data there.
The next update will be available at the beginning of September.
For us the development of OpenAndroMaps is going on, there are plenty of things to think about.
We wish you a nice summer and pleasant trips with the OpenAndroMaps.
Greetings, Tobias, Michael, Christian