OSM Baustelle

Umap overlay support hat a slightly bumpy start, so I may have put it on the public server too early, but should now be fully usable in single page mode.

Fixes and improvements applied during the last two days include:

• rendering doesn’t fail anymore when certain properties are not found
• per-layer defaults are now taken into account in addition to global ones
• the “circle” and “ball” markers are now rendered properly
• whether a marker icon should be black or white is now reliably detected
• external marker icons referenced by http: or https: URLs are now downloaded and displayed
• dash patterns are supported when rendering lines
• the map title field is pre-filled with the Umap map name
• when the umap file uses a tile layer style supported by this MapOSMatic instance it is auto selected

Things that are still missing or need to be fixed:

• Umap overlay rendering in multi page format
• handling of label display options
• vertical marker positioning may still be minimally too low or high

As an alternative to GPX uploads it is now also possible to uploaed saved Umap maps and render the contents as an overlay.

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Finally implemented a feature long overdue: the footer text now not only contains information about the software and the data source, but also about the style used to render the map, and about all overlay styles used on top of it.

After hopefully having sorted out all problems caused by the rusher migration to a new, faster server I’ve now finally figured out how to improve the user interface for GPX uploads.

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There are still a few small things not working well on the new machine yet, as due to the failure of the old machine ahead of time.

Problems that I’m aware of right now:

• WayMarkedTrails overlays were missing most track symbols, and on the way regenerating them I accidentially deleted an important data file. So right now a full re-import of the routes database is ongoing, hopefully finished in a few hours
• Selecting a geographic area in the web frontend is somewhat broken, I hope to figure out what went wrong with the Javascript code there soon …

  Rendering by city name is not affected.

Finally, all services seem to be back in working shape again on the new server.

I don’t really know what went wrong in the first place, or what action actually fixed it, and for now I don’t care and just think about better monitoring instead.

Continue reading “Site working again, on new server”

Unfortunately a bunch of things have gone wrong last weekend, beginning with a failed attempt to renew the LetsEncrypt certificates.

I had already started to set up a new, faster machine anyway, but getting that ready to fully replace the old one didn’t work out that well either yet.

Secondary services, like this blog, are working now, but the web frontend to the MapOSMatic instance is still playing tricks on me, with each page request taking almost exactly 1 minute 52 seconds.

Hopefully I’ll be able to get things running again by tomorrow before leaving for FOSDEM.

PS: there was no data loss, the rendered results for all map requets filed since christmas are still available and can be retrieved if you are patiend enough.

There haven’t been any visible changes since FrOScon, so I want to give a quick update on things I’m currently planing or actually working on.

My main focus right now is on improving the GPX track overlay feature,

Continue reading “Things to come …”

It is now possible to add a scale bar to rendered maps on my MapOSMatic instance:

This is implemented as an optional overlay, and currently the last option in the overlay selection list.

Continue reading “Map Scalebar Overlay”

I’ve finally shown the surveillance overlay some love again, the render style should now be up to date with the original Surveillance under Surveillance online map style.

Changes include:

• correctly calculate camera viewing ranges independent of zoom level
• support for new camera symbols for fixed and panning cameras
• some code cleanups

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