Openandromaps are currently being switched step by step to a non-commercial, professional Download-Server.
The maps will be served from the same server that hosts the “Geofabrik” – thanks to everyone who supported this move.
This step was a crucial point for the whole project couse it was clear to see that GoogleDrive would stop this sooner or later, there were already problems this March.
Currently more than 200 Maps are served from openandromaps, this means 70GB of disc-space and lots of Terrabytes of traffic every month – a volume that is not possible to serve with a commercial server with no budget.
The move starts with Germany and Europe and should be finished next weekend. If there are any problems please drop me a line.
Best regards, christian
BTW: Currently the maps are synced by ftp with the server – a clear nonsense currently accepted by the server-admin.
However, next weeks should see a Synology-NAS-System for syncing by rsync – this will cost another 350Euros, I hope you will support this project by some bucks (a few are better than none) 😉
Germany: Now has its own download page.
I added all states as seperate files for those with small data-accounts.
Europa: Ukraine is now available in cyrillic too.
Africa, Oceania: new rendered
China: The coplete coverage is now ready for download
Japan: For the first time whole Japan is available for download.
Comming next week: Russia both in english and cyrillc
Best regards, Christian
Russia now have its own download section due to its size.
At the moment these maps are rendered in english language (as far as tagged in Openstreetmap), in the future – after completing coverage and finetunning – the maps will be available both in english and cyrillic.
Available at the moment: Caucasia, Central, Ural-South, Volga
The database of Russia is of excellent quality, thanks to the russian cummunity!
Best regards, Christian
Now made possible with the new Rendermachine:
Germany and France with complete coverage and combined Cycle/Hikeroutes
Germany:
The Mapping of Germany is made in the same way as the Netherlands to ensure sufficiant loading times, the downside is that this adds some MB to the mapsize – not a big issue in times of 64GB SD-Cards
The seperated cycle/Hike maps for Germany will stay in the portfolio – maybe they will be replaced by smaler maps with the coverage of the German states.
France:
The French map is redered with a special mapping that ensures fast loading times. If you like this mapping it is possible to use it for other big maps in the future. The France South/Mid/North maps will be discontinued with the next update.
Update of the complete European mapset:
All maps now contain the tags for additional cycle barriers:
<pois> <osm-tag key="barrier" value="bollard" zoom-appear="16" /> <osm-tag key="barrier" value="cycle_barrier" zoom-appear="16" /> <osm-tag key="barrier" value="gate" zoom-appear="16" /> <osm-tag key="barrier" value="lift_gate" zoom-appear="16" /> <osm-tag key="barrier" value="chain" zoom-appear="16" /> </pois>
Currently these tags are not rendered in the standard Renderthemes. However, MTB-enthusiasts will manage to add these to their custom Themes.
BUT: keep in mind that in the current version of Mapsforge pois are not rendered 100% reliable, so keep two fingers at the brake levers 😉
Best regards, Christian