Unfortunately, I made a tiny mistake in the structure of the POI categories which leads to the fact that the POI databases for both Orux and Locus are broken in the February update.
I will be re-uploading the map files with the POI databases in a couple of days.
Until then, please download the POI files from January here:
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/misc/openstreetmap/openandromaps/pois/
Sorry, this shouldn’t happen…..
Dear members of the OpenAndroMaps community,
Another year is drawing to a close, already the 9th year for OAM !
Nine years are a long time in an era in which continous and accelerating change is the only constant.
Without my ally Tobias and Michal and the Members of the OAM Developer-Community OpenAndroMaps wouldn’t be what it is today – probably the best vector maps for all outdoor fanatics and travellers.
I also like to thank all users who made the effort to register in our forum and give hints, suggestions and error reports. This is very important for us as we can be routine-blinded or just lack the time to test every map update for errors. Although our standard is and can only be absolutely professional, we do all this in our rare spare time and with only a tiny budget.
A short summary of the innovations that have been incorporated into the OAM in 2020:
Investments were also made in the equipment of the rendering machine:
Our goal is to sustain and enhance this project and ask you kindly to further support us.
The OAM team wishes you all a merry christmas!
Tobias, Michael, Christian
Posts not created by moderators were set to “Hold” if they contained several links or even (oh well, imagine!!) media. WITHOUT message to the moderators.
Furthermore BBPress is not able to set the date/time stamp of the last post in the forum overview correctly since 5 months.
Thanks to Frank from the Netherlands for his endless patience in detecting errors!
As far as I can see, everything is working fine – if you have any problems with the downgrade please let me know.
If you can’t do otherwise, please leave a comment here.
By the way, the update of _all_ the maps is in progress with further improved LoPoI’s which are now also directly included in the map_zip.
Best regards
Christian
Sorry, the user registration in the forum did not work for 24h – now it’s repaired.
The sending of mails needed a new authorization type – this issue is resolved.
Again my request: If you register in the forum please use email addresses that are NOT preferred by spammers – not yahoo and their relatives. I have to raise the obstacle for spammers every year because the amount of scam/spam exceeds every reasonable level.
The website is now running – especially in the forum area – much faster than before, I spent one more CPU to the new cloud server and activated the CDN again. The site is now above 93% in all rankings at GtMetric, ensuring a pleasant user-experience for you.
So there’s nothing to stop the regular big update of _all_ maps at mid-year.
The POIs for Locus have now also reached a level of maturity that is significantly better than BETA.
Greetings,
Your team from OpenAndroMaps
The domains are transferred and provided with certificates.
Everything still runs without optimizations, that will come.
Support and updates should be available at the end of May.
There is still a lot of work left till everything is up as bevor.
Greetings, Christian
The website of the OpenAndroMaps will be dusted a little bit in the next days (it’s raining 
).
A tedious and time-consuming work, but, especially with WordPress, it is inevitable from time to time.
We have now PHP +7 / MySql 5.7 on the server side and not every WordPress plugin can do that.
Which means that old plugins that have not been maintained for years have to be eliminated or replaced.
Only when this is done WP and the theme itself are able to be updated.
Unfortunately, the plugin that generates the dynamic download tables is also one of these deliverables – finding a replacement here will be a challenge.
If someone has experience with the FOO-Tables under WP+5 (doesn’t work or what has to be done) I would be grateful for any help.
For now, the SocialMedia plugin (Shariff) has been eliminated and replaced by the function that is now integrated into the Enfold theme. There is _no_ communication with FB/Twitter/Instgramm/etc – only a “stupid” link is set. This corresponds to my idea of a clean website.
Another, very practical plugin, is/was the CrayonSyntaxHighlighter for source codes that are formatted very nicely and readably. Unfortunately this plugin has not been updated for 4 years and there is no adequate replacement that would be worth the program overhead. So these elements (program snippets in the majority) are now displayed as PRE-formatted text.
And so on, the list is quite long…
I have to replace some elements on all pages and then check ALL pages and posts for consistency. Furthermore all caches+CDN have to be switched off from time to time.
Which means that the website will be (sometimes) very, very slow – this can’t be avoided because the WordPress Backend (Admin) consumes a lot of resources.
So if you see a “Gateway Error No [something]” please understand a webmaster who is trying to keep his inner center while restarting the server.
Best regards
Christian
In the meantime you can download Michael’s maps to your smartphone, they have reached a level of perfection that will amaze you:
Dear members of the OpenAndroMaps community,
another year is drawing to a close, already the sixth year for OAM.
Time to say “thanks” to all the people contibuting new, better Data for OAM like
@Sonny constantly integrates new LIDAR (LaserScan) elevation data, wherever available for free, into the existing viewfinder/nasa dataset – resulting in the most reliable contourlines available on free maps.
@MaxBe who found a way to sort mountain peaks by “importance” so we could render the important ones in lower zoom-levels – an improvement that is included in the december map update.
I also like to thank all users who made the effort to register in our forum and give hints, suggestions and error reports. This is very important for us as we can be routine-blinded or just lack the time to test every map update for errors. Although our standard is and can only be absolutely professional, we do all this in our rare spare time and with only a tiny budget.
Our goal is to sustain and enhance this project and ask you kindly to further support us.
The OAM team wishes you all a merry christmas!
Yes, I know..
Kommunikation from my side to the OpenAndroMaps community could – and should – be better (by far)
A lot of improvements happened during 2017 – OAM is’nt on idle at all, we are working hard to improve, add new Features, include external Data, aso..
Maps:
Website:
However the best of all is about to come.
December update will bring a real great improvement for hikers and alpinists.
Best regards
Team of OAM
The OpenAndroMaps website will switch to secure transfer protocoll according HTTPS / SSL this week.
This step is required by the Google guidlines to provide the HTTPS / SSL for all sites that require user inputs such as comments, user accounts, or forums.
This is an important step ahead in data security, which has been supported on the side of OpenAndroMaps since long by flanking, server-side actions like Intruderdedection, protection against BruteForce attacks and integration into various blacklists.
UPDATE 2017-08-22 18:00h MEZ: Done, the Website is running on fine on SSL, no mixed contend any more – we have a green lock-symbol on all pages. I have tested all functions and have’nt found any bug. However, if you experience problems please post here as comment or in the forum.
Best regards, Christian
The latest update of the wordpress theme I use here on OAM was somewhat buggy.
This means that some pagelinks under the main menu items does’nt show up on smartphones and tablets – eg. the Renderthemes under “MapStyles”. I made a workaround for this problem till the author of the theme provides a fix.
However, you have to empty the page-cache of your browsers to ensure that this fix will work.
So, please empty your browser cache:
https://www.google.at/search?q=empty+browser+cache
Sorry,
Christian