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
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
- 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