Category: maposmatic

As a new feature you can now enter your email address in the last form step. You will then be notified once your requested map has been finished, or in the case of errors.

So no need to keep the status page open anymore while waiting for your map to render.

Update: everything is back to normal again, all caught up

Due to database maintenance work regular diff imports to the main OSM database are currently disabled, the current database state is that of July 5th noon (CEST).

The WayMarkedTrails route database is still getting its regular updates, but is currently falling behind a little bit (currently around 7-8 hours) due to the higher disk load during maintenance.

Rendering of maps is still possible, just don’t expect map data changed after Jul 5th noon to be taken into account for the next few days …

I’ve been collecting various map rendering styles for my MyOSMatic instance for quite a while now, integrating whatever I found useful and not too hard to integrate.

I’d now like to put a bit more systematic effort into this, and for this I need some “swarm intelligence” help.

So if you know of a map rendering style out there that you’d like to see supported please let me know.

Conditions:

• The style files must be under a “sufficiently open” license
• It needs to use Mapnik XML or CartoCSS as implementation language
• … sorry, no MapCSS, unless someone can come up with a good converter to MapnikXML for that
• It needs to be sufficiently distinct from the default CartoOSM style and other already supported styles so that it adds real value
• It must be based on the standard osm2pgsql database style. If it adds some fields on top of that it’s ok, this can be solved by providing views that make use of the hstore-all tags column. But setting up a completely different database schema is not possible due to space and processing time restrictions.

If you know of any good map styles that match the criteria above please let me know in a comment on this post, or even better: create a feature request issue on Github

Yet another style sheet: the russian Veloroad Style

A long overdue feature in map area selection:

A “Locate me” button that pans and zooms the slippy map to your current position for easy navigation.

I had added the option to upload a GPX track in the MapOSMatic instance a little while ago, but using that was a bit tricky. This has just been improved a little big.

So far you had to manually select the map area to render before adding a GPX track which could be a bit tricky.

Now it is possible to select one of three options:

• keep original bounding box (default, as before)
• extend (merge) the bounding box to fully contain the GPX track, too
• replace the selected bounding box with that of the GPX track completely

Over the weekend I’ve imported countour data generously provided by OpenSnowMap.

Contour lines in 10m steps are now enabled in the OpenTopoMap style by default, and can be added to other styles as an overlay.

Continue reading “Style updates – height contour lines etc.”

Update 2: CREATE INDEX just finished, OSM planet DB catching up with diffs again now. WayMarkedTrais route DB still not applying diffs right now for IO bandwidht reasons, will start to catch up when main database is up to date again

Update: data import finished, but GIS index still being built, and system still IO bound with that. So regular diff imports will only be resumed some time tomorrow (hopefully)

I’m currently importing contour line data provided by OpenSnowMap.

To reduce IO load I’ve disabled diff imports on the main and waymarked route databases for now, so latestest OSM changes from today are currently not rendered.

I expect the contours import to finish in the afternoon, and then diff imports to catch up before the end of the day.

Route symbols in the WayMarkedTrails overlays were originally pre-rendered in fixed size PNG format, this lead to rather pixelized output, especially on large paper sizes, as the PNGs were made for screen resolution, not for high DPI printing.

Now symbol generation has been switched to produce scalable SVGs instead, so producing much sharper output:

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Old: pixelized PNG images:

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New: sharp SVG images

I had some GPX overlay tests running for a while already, and now I also finally have figured out how to manage file uploads in Django successfully.

So you can now upload your own GPX tracks in an additional form step and have them put on top of your rendered map.

Continue reading “Rendering of uploaded GPX tracks finally works!”