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[done]Firewall goes crazy

Cleantalk responded promptly and positively, and corrected the incorrect rules.
The temporary bans should now all have been lifted as well

 

Thanks to all the users who have let me know that the firewall – which is, unfortunately, absolutely essential – appears to be generating far too many false positives.
I have toned down the underlying module and hope that Cleantalk will soon resolve this issue.

Let’s hope this really is just a bug and not a genuine exploit epidemic.

EDIT: I’ve unblocked most of the banned IP addresses. Only EWE-Tel GmbH, with one customer, remains on the blacklist – 735 requests in 5 minutes is a bit too much, sorry. Dear ISPs, please keep a close eye on your ‘customers’.

Best regards,
Christian – OAM

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ChristianK

Feature Freeze OAM

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Dear Community,

 

Due to internal changes and the redistribution of tasks between Michael and myself in the map-making process, we need to establish a feature freeze over the summer.

This means that no new tags or objects will be added, nor will any rules be changed.

This step is necessary because the highly complex, global map creation process was and remains solely based on my expertise, and if I’m unable to continue, the whole project would collapse like a house of cards.

Admittedly, this also applies to Tobias’s render themes, but he’s a generation younger than me 😉

 

Best regards,

Your OpenAndroMaps Team

 

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ChristianK

China Maps on own download page

We have now significantly expanded our maps of China, a country that is growing in importance year on year – with an enthusiastic community of mappers.

Until now, the map layout was more of a stopgap solution – now the maps are organised according to the provinces.
This means there are now 17 new, logically structured maps – available on a dedicated download page.

The old maps and their download links, which until now could be found under our “Asia” section, will be removed shortly – please update your download links and scripts.

 

Wishing you a pleasant summer,
Your OpenAndroMaps Team

 

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ChristianK

[DONE] Update for February delayed for a few days…

The data line to the download server is up and running again!
Many thanks to the support team at GWDG.DE !

 

Unfortunately, I messed up the data transfer to our download server.

It will take a little while longer until the new maps are available.

 

Sorry…
Christian

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Offline OAM-POIs in latest LOCUS-Version

Dear Locus users in the OAM community:

In the latest version of Locus, you can choose to use either Locus or ‘Other’ offline POIs.
If you want to activate the OAM POIs, you must deactivate ‘LoPoint’ under ‘Map screen contents’
and activate ‘Other POIs’.

Best regards
Your OAM Team

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ChristianK

New Download Scheme

In a short nutshell:

 

The map and the respective POI files can now be downloaded individually.

With the direct installation (“Android Install On”), ORUXMAPS map and POI files are installed individually = 2 clicks required.

With “Android Install On” Locus, the map, special POI file and the latest theme are alltogether installed in one go.
Please ALWAYS give priority to the automatic direct installation!

The manual download can now also be done separately for map and POIs

Advantage: The valuable and scarce memory space on the smartphone is now only used for the files that are really needed – previously all map, Locus POIs and Mapsforge POIs were installed together.

 

Further information and the current status of the transition to the new scheme can be found here in the forum:
https://www.openandromaps.org/oam-forums/topic/installation-einer-karte-fuer-locus-installiert-unnoetige-datei

 

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ChristianK

India and Malaysia Maps now split

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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

  • India-North-West
  • India-North-East
  • India-South

 

Malaysia-Indonesia into

  • Malaysia-Indonesia-East
  • Malaysia-Indonesia-West

 

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

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ChristianK

Summer Update, EBike_Charging, LIDAR

Dear hiking, cycling and outdoor enthusiasts,

 

The major summer update of the maps is now online.

 

What’s new:

The LaserScan elevation data has been further improved and extended by @Sonny. We recommend downloading the complete Europe maps again to avoid ghost lines in overlapping areas with the old elevation data.

 

The ebike charging stations are now better organised into POIs – the corresponding rules can be found here
Basically, there are 3 types of ebike charging stations, whereby only those that (also) provide Schuko sockets are included:

  • Completely cost-free, public ones that do not require any consumption (restaurant, hotel, etc…)
  • Free ones, but which are only or primarily accessible to customers (restaurant, coffee, hotel, etc.)
  • Fee-based, but where no prior registration/customer card is required.

One note on ORUXMaps: The latest version of ORUX is required for the correct display of maps and POIs.
If you don’t like the new ORUX user interface, you can switch back to the old interface in the settings.

 

We wish you all a wonderful summer and lots of great tours

Tobias, Michael and Christian

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New ORUX POIs for Christmas

A new map set will be available at the turn of the year with the following changes:

 

The data structure for the Mapsforge POIs, as used by ORUX-Maps, has been made more efficient and this new programme library has been implemented in the new versions of ORUX.

This means that we at OpenAndroMaps can also create and deliver the new POIs – i.e. the new version will be included in the Map-zips and delivered during automatic installation from Christmas on.

The requirement is that updates from Orux are installed – this applies to both the free version and the GooglePlay version.

 

For users of older versions of ORUX who for some reason cannot be updated (old smartphone, etc.) we will continue to keep the old version of the ORUX pois available for download here
https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/openstreetmap/openandromaps/pois/ORUX_old/
Please do not link permanently yet, the names of the zip files will still change.

You can download the new POIS for testing here:
https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/openstreetmap/openandromaps/pois/ORUX_V3/

 

 

So: Please update your ORUX installations to take advantage of the new POI files.

 

Best regards
Christian and the OAM team

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ChristianK

September update released

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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

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