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Now covering Europe instead of just Germany

You may have noticed that the services on this domain were a bit slow the last few days. This was due to a new database import running in the background, importing an OSM extract of all of Europe instead of just Germany.

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New CartoOSM based German style

Sven Geggus has announced the release of the new CartoOSM based German style for http://openstreetmap.de/

My MapOSMatic instance now also provides the new style (along with the old one for now).

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Step by step Leaflet API and Plugin guide

A long time ago I did a simple step by step guide for creating slippy maps with OpenLayers, mostly as a brain dump for myself back then …

I now finally got to doing the same for Leaflet and some of its plugins and created a Leaflet version, too.

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OpenLayers -> Leaflet and other improvements

I added some more improvements to my MapOSMatic instance:

selecting a GUI language works again
slippy maps are now created with Leaflet instead of OpenLayers
rendered maps list and details page now show rendered area
city search is fast again

(details below)

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FrOSCon 11 (2016)

I just returned from FrOSCon in St. Augustin, Germany, where I had a talk on Creating printable maps, (with Video recording), and another one on GIS features in MariaDB and MySQL (not recorded)

Especially the “printable maps” one went pretty well, and several great ideas and feature requests were brought up in the Q&A part and in the hallway discussion afterwards …

OSM Summer Camp 2016 – Essen

I just returned from this years OSM Summer Camp, held in combination with the sixth FOSSGIS hacking event in and around the Linuxhotel.

Aside from celebrating the 12th OSM birthday I continued to hack on my local href=”MapOSMatic instance, the web editor for printable neighborhood maps, and MariaDB/MySQL and SpatiaLite backends for osm2pgsql.

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Customize POI maps for your neighbourhood

I created a new web frontend to the MapOSMatic rendering backend that supports putting POI markers on a slippy map and then renders a map with markers set on the map and a customized index sidebar that contains given marker titles and icons.

There’s also preliminary documentation and, of course, a GitHub repository for it.

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