[OSM-talk] Upcoming OpenStreetMap Maintenance - 26 April 2024

2024-04-20 Thread Grant Slater
Hi OpenStreetMap, The OpenStreetMap.org website, API and some related services will be unavailable for short periods between 03:00 CEST (GMT/UTC+2) and 07:00 CEST on Friday 26th April 2024 due to scheduled network maintenance. Our ISP only recently notified us of the upcoming maintenance.

[OSM-talk] Upcoming Maintenance - 26 April 2023

2023-04-21 Thread Grant Slater
Hi OpenStreetMap, The OpenStreetMap.org website, API and some related services will be unavailable for short periods between 00:00 CEST (GMT/UTC+2) and 06:00 CEST on Wednesday 26th April 2023 due to scheduled network maintenance. It is likely there may be 2 outages during the window which could

Re: [OSM-talk] Test Import of forum.osm.org to community.osm.org

2023-02-25 Thread Grant Slater
HI, Replies below... On Sat, 25 Feb 2023 at 18:19, Mateusz Konieczny via talk wrote: > > Old links will continue to work, right? > > Including links in posts linking other posts (that now > link to the original forum) > > Yes, all category, user and post links still work by redirecting to the

[OSM-talk] Test Import of forum.osm.org to community.osm.org

2023-02-21 Thread Grant Slater
Hi OSM Talk, In the near future we will be moving the old forum.osm.org content to community.openstreetmap.org If you used the old forum, please login to the test import site https://forum-import-test.openstreetmap.org/ to check your old posts. The imported content is at the bottom half of the

Re: [OSM-talk] AT Email

2023-01-30 Thread Grant Slater
Hi Mike, We have now reached out to ATT asking them to unblock the OpenStreetMap.org mail relay server or provide us with more detail. We recently cut across to a new email relay server, we had spent a few months slowly increasing the mail sent by the new relay to slowly build up "sender IP

Re: [OSM-talk-nl] Gedoe rond garmin.openstreetmap.nl

2022-05-03 Thread Grant Slater
Hi OSM NL, Sorry dat ik in het Engels schrijf. Ik betwijfel of mijn Afrikaans hier wordt begrepen ;-) I think Stefan is referring me to contacting uni-wuppertal.de to ask if they could put me into contact with the person who runs the backend of garmin.opensteetmap.nl

[OSM-talk] 1st November 2020 - Edit API unavailable during maintenance

2020-10-30 Thread Grant Slater
Hi OpenStreetMap'ers, This Sunday 1st November 2020 from 10:30am until 13:30 GMT/UTC the OpenStreetMap editing API will be read-only. We are upgrading the cluster of database servers. During the maintenance you will be unable to save map changes. Kind regards, Grant Part of the OSM sysadmin

[Talk-GB] Finally a RTK / NTRIP Broadcaster in London

2020-09-06 Thread Grant Slater
Hi All, Experimenting with RTK? (rtklib) Need an NTRIP / RTCM broadcaster in London? Great news, there is finally a free one available! Registration required here: https://register.rtcm-ntrip.org/cgi-bin/registration.cgi Others available in the UK: DARE00GBR0: Daresbury ENIS00GBR0: Enniskillen

[OSM-talk] Upcoming OSM.org Maintenance: 15 August 2020 - 10:00am UTC

2020-08-12 Thread Grant Slater
Hi OpenStreetMap Mappers, The OpenStreetmap Sysadmin team will be performing server maintenance this coming Saturday 15th August 2020 at 10:00am UTC (GMT+0). The maintenance is expected to last upto an hour. The OpenStreetMap.org website, API (used for editing) and the planet diff exports are

[Talk-GB] Old copies of OS Open Map Local Raster?

2020-07-12 Thread Grant Slater
Hi All, Does anyone have old copies of the OS Open Map Local raster? The original filename is: omlras_gtfc_gb.zip I believe the releases were: * 2016-10 * 2017 ??? * 2018-04 * 2018-10 * 2019-04 (have copy) * 2020-04 (have copy) Kind regards, Grant

Re: [OSM-talk-nl] 4x HP DL360 G6 Servers?

2019-05-07 Thread Grant Slater
Hi, Servers now gone. Kind regards, Grant On Tue, 7 May 2019, 21:28 Grant Slater, wrote: > Hi OpenStreetMap NL, > > Would anyone like 4x HP DL360 G6 Servers? > Example Specs: > https://hardware.openstreetmap.org/servers/spike-02.openstreetmap.org/ > > They are grea

[OSM-talk-nl] 4x HP DL360 G6 Servers?

2019-05-07 Thread Grant Slater
Hi OpenStreetMap NL, Would anyone like 4x HP DL360 G6 Servers? Example Specs: https://hardware.openstreetmap.org/servers/spike-02.openstreetmap.org/ They are great reliable 1U servers and served OpenStreetMap.org very well for the last few years. They are free. Collection is from Amsterdam at

Re: [OSM-talk] DJI Fly SafeGEO ZONE MAP uses OSM data... without attribution

2019-03-18 Thread Grant Slater
Hi Nuno, > > Check yourself, head to https://www.dji.com/pt/flysafe/geo-map select your > country, zoom in and check the data. Airports restriction areas seems not to > be OSM data, but from other source. > Share your examples if you will. > Yes, on a brief inspection it does look like it is

Re: [talk-au] Able to host a tile.osm.org CDN node?

2019-02-24 Thread Grant Slater
only thing I don’t have right now is a router that can handle the higher > speed plan from my ISP that would be required. > > How urgently do you guys want something in place? > > Thanks Michael > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Grant Slater > >

Re: [talk-au] [Talk-nz] Able to host a tile.osm.org CDN node?

2019-02-20 Thread Grant Slater
n, would this be a viable option? > > Thanks, John > > On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 06:55, Grant Slater > wrote: >> >> Hi OpenStreetMap Talk-AU, >> >> Quick Introduction: I am part of the volunteer Operations team who run >> the OpenStreetMap.org infrastructure.

[Talk-br] Able to host a tile.osm.org CDN node? (Inglês)

2019-02-19 Thread Grant Slater
Hi OpenStreetMap Talk-BR, (Please would someone kindly translate this into Portugês?) Quick Introduction: I am part of the volunteer Operations team who run the OpenStreetMap.org servers. Our tile.openstreetmap.org CDN would greatly benefit from having a cache server in Brazil. It would make

[talk-au] Able to host a tile.osm.org CDN node?

2019-02-19 Thread Grant Slater
Hi OpenStreetMap Talk-AU, Quick Introduction: I am part of the volunteer Operations team who run the OpenStreetMap.org infrastructure. Our tile.openstreetmap.org CDN would greatly benefit from having a cache server in Australia and/or New Zealand. It would make the default rendered map on

[OSM-talk] Crowdsourcing purchase of Historical Namibian Topo Maps

2018-12-20 Thread Grant Slater
Hi All, I am running a GoFundMe campaign to purchase the historical 1:50k topographic map series for Namibia. Any support would be appreciated: https://www.gofundme.com/namibian-topographic-maps The map sheets were produced during the 1970s and 1980s by the Surveyor-General of South West

[OSM-Talk-ZA] Crowdsourcing purchase of Historical Namibian Topo Maps

2018-12-20 Thread Grant Slater
Hi All, I am running a GoFundMe campaign to purchase the historical 1:50k topographic map series for Namibia. Any support would be appreciated: https://www.gofundme.com/namibian-topographic-maps The map sheets were produced during the 1970s and 1980s by the Surveyor-General of South West

[Talk-africa] Crowdsourcing purchase of Historical Namibian Topo Maps

2018-12-20 Thread Grant Slater
Hi All, I am running a GoFundMe campaign to purchase the historical 1:50k topographic map series for Namibia. Any support would be appreciated: https://www.gofundme.com/namibian-topographic-maps The map sheets were produced during the 1970s and 1980s by the Surveyor-General of South West

Re: [OSM-talk] API a lot slower?

2018-07-17 Thread Grant Slater
On 17 July 2018 at 13:42, Daniel Koć wrote: > W dniu 17.07.2018 o 12:22, Grant Slater pisze: >> Our primary hardware is moving to a new data centre next week, and >> will take some time to get up and running. > > What data center do you mean? Is it the one w

Re: [OSM-talk] API a lot slower?

2018-07-17 Thread Grant Slater
Hi All, Yes, the API will be slower. We are running on our backup hardware for the next few weeks. Our primary hardware is moving to a new data centre next week, and will take some time to get up and running. It is a major move for the server operations group. Will announce more details in the

Re: [talk-au] Increased precision options for Australia - QZSS, SBAS or Galileo

2018-06-12 Thread Grant Slater
Hi All, I have 2 of these for RTK GNSS receivers: https://emlid.com/reachrs/ 1 ReachRS unit becomes the RTK static "base" and you needs a very accurate position measurement and good signal. To get the most accurate measurement I use my base and connect it to another base using an NTRIP network.

Re: [OSM-talk] Nominatim on the main page

2018-02-18 Thread Grant Slater
On 18 February 2018 at 19:07, Jason Remillard wrote: > Hi Grant, > > If you read Serge's post, he is quite clear on what his preferred > solution to this resourcing problem. Our tiles and Nominatim services > should have terms of services that include paid higher levels

Re: [OSM-talk] Nominatim on the main page

2018-02-18 Thread Grant Slater
On 18 February 2018 at 18:05, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 11:58 AM, Grant Slater <openstreet...@firefishy.com> > wrote: >> >> How about someone in the community organises a Beauty Parade / Cross >> Comparison of di

Re: [OSM-talk] Nominatim on the main page

2018-02-18 Thread Grant Slater
On 18 February 2018 at 17:34, Paul Johnson wrote: > In the diatribe (no disrespect meant, since it did bring up some relevant > points that we can use constructively, simply a description of the tone) > that emacsen posted last week that we've surely all read by now, he does

[OSM-Talk-ZA] Knysna Fires Mapping Task

2017-06-14 Thread Grant Slater
Hi All, There is a project to map all the building in Knysna to potentially help with the relief effort: http://tasks.teachosm.org/project/390 I've grabbed a square already ;-) Happy Mapping. / Grant ___ Talk-ZA mailing list

[OSM-Talk-ZA] Amazing Mapping Detail in CT

2017-06-13 Thread Grant Slater
Hi All, This is some impressive mapping details in Cape Town: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/-33.88991/18.59125 Nice work! Kind regards, Grant ___ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za

[Talk-GB] New OSM London Meetup - Invite

2017-04-30 Thread Grant Slater
Hi All, We trying a new format OpenStreetMap evening meetup in London this Wednesday 3rd May 2017... We'd love for you to come along: https://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Q-A-Meetup/events/239366249/ New to OpenStreetMap and want to learn more or need some help getting started? Already mapping

[Talk-gb-london] New OSM London Meetup - Invite

2017-04-30 Thread Grant Slater
Hi All, We trying a new format OpenStreetMap evening meetup in London this Wednesday 3rd May 2017... We'd love for you to come along: https://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Q-A-Meetup/events/239366249/ New to OpenStreetMap and want to learn more or need some help getting started? Already mapping

[Talk-GB] RTK / Base Stations / NTRIP

2017-04-02 Thread Grant Slater
Hi OSM GB, I've recently been experimenting with Real-time Kinematic (RTK) "GPS" GNSS receivers and RTKLIB with some reasonable success. I've been able to get repeatable centimetre level position accuracy. I've been using u-blox NEO-M8T chipsets. Unfortunately there are very few open and

Re: [OSM-talk] Website map image export down?

2017-03-16 Thread Grant Slater
On 16 March 2017 at 15:47, jc86035 wrote: > I've tried exporting maps from the Share tab on the website today, but > it keeps giving me a "Missing or invalid token" error. Is the export > function down, and is there another way to export arbitrary maps in the > default

Re: [OSM-talk] Public GPS Traces

2017-01-06 Thread Grant Slater
On 6 January 2017 at 17:41, Dave F wrote: > Main Page > Map Layers > Public GPS Traces > > What do the different colours represent for this feature? > Travel direction. / Grant ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Beware Pokemon users

2016-12-25 Thread Grant Slater
Someone should mentioned to the Pokémon players that if they correctly fix up TIGER data & other imports the spawn rate is significantly higher, not to mention the amazing effects of adding genuine buildings, shops, addresses and other amenities. Based on my unauthoritative unqualified zero sample

[OSM-Talk-ZA] HOT / Missing Maps task in Rustenburg South Africa

2016-12-25 Thread Grant Slater
Hi All, There is a South African task on the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Task Manager: http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/2403 Please check it help and help map a square. More information and details are available on the above link. Kind regards, Grant

[OSM-Talk-ZA] New Cycle routes in Cape Town

2016-12-02 Thread Grant Slater
Hi All, New Table Mountain cycle routes We should map them! :) https://www.sanparks.org/docs/general/emp_mountain_biking.pdf Kind regards, Grant ___ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za

Re: [OSM-talk] Bug on Garmin.opentsreetmap.nl?

2016-10-26 Thread Grant Slater
Hi Severin, The forum "closed to new registrations" message is incorrect. You can sign-in with your openstreetmap.org login credentials. Kind regards, Grant On 26 October 2016 at 16:59, Severin Menard wrote: > Hi, > Sorry to post this here, but I did not find any

[OSM-talk] OSM Forum move / disruption

2016-10-20 Thread Grant Slater
Hi All, The OpenStreetMap forum at http://forum.openstreetmap.org/ is moving to a new server this Saturday. During the move the site will be disrupted. The move is scheduled for the United Kingdom morning. (GMT+1) All content and users will be migrated. After the move the forum will be https by

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] High Resolution Aerial Imagery of Cape Town (8cm)

2016-09-07 Thread Grant Slater
h to spot some great bird flying > formations :-) > > regards, > Dawid > > > On 07/09/2016 16:05, Grant Slater wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Yup... I forgot to move osm.org.za + openstreetmap.org.za by the >> suspend deadline. I had a real adventure moving them to a new

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] High Resolution Aerial Imagery of Cape Town (8cm)

2016-09-07 Thread Grant Slater
ng I can do to assist. > > --K > > On 5 September 2016 at 18:04, Grant Slater <openstreet...@firefishy.com> > wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> And of course I experience an issue as soon as I sent this... >> openstreetmap.org.za DNS has issues, give me a few d

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] High Resolution Aerial Imagery of Cape Town (8cm)

2016-09-05 Thread Grant Slater
Hi All, And of course I experience an issue as soon as I sent this... openstreetmap.org.za DNS has issues, give me a few days to fix. Sorry for the inconvenience. Kind regards, Grant On 5 September 2016 at 14:38, Grant Slater <openstreet...@firefishy.com> wrote: > Hi OpenStr

[OSM-Talk-ZA] High Resolution Aerial Imagery of Cape Town (8cm)

2016-09-05 Thread Grant Slater
Hi OpenStreetMap ZA, I've been able to get permission for OpenStreetMap to use the City of Cape Town's very high resolution 2015 aerial imagery (8cm). I collected a copy of the imagery last month. It will be available in JOSM and iD in a few weeks time. In the mean time, here is a quick

[OSM-Talk-ZA] Compiling ZA Open Geo List

2016-08-05 Thread Grant Slater
Hi All, I have started compiling a list of Open Geo data providers in South Africa. Any help expanding the list would be appreciated. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TRldpu2DfLgTENQxGY8tKpkBK181FnECcA_zX4wfE9Q/edit#gid=0 Kind regards, Grant

[Talk-GB] Night Time Aerial Imagery?!?

2016-07-10 Thread Grant Slater
Hi OSM-GB, The Environment Agency recently release a massive trove of Open Data, which I am slowly started to process. One of the smaller and quicker to process datasets is the Night Time aerial imagery which I've now tiled and put online here: http://ea.openstreetmap.org.uk/ Birmingham:

[Talk-GB] Updated OS Street View (OpenData)

2016-06-17 Thread Grant Slater
Hi OSM-GB, I recently updated: http://os.openstreetmap.org/ The site now has all the OS Street View OpenData editions April 2010 to April 2016. The tiles defaults to the latest April 2016 edition. Ordnance Survey are not releasing further updates to OS Street View. [1] I have created "diffs"

Re: [OSM-talk] Upload slowness - what's going on?

2016-05-13 Thread Grant Slater
Hi All, On Monday 9th May 2016 the master OSM database server was moved to York (Bytemark) from London (Imperial). This was to avoid multiple upcoming weekends of planned power testing & maintenance at the Imperial data centre. For the last few years Imperial has housed all our main critical

Re: [OSM-talk] API read-only for next 45mins

2016-05-04 Thread Grant Slater
Hi All, The mapping API is now back to normal. Happy mapping all. Kind regards, Grant On 4 May 2016 at 16:33, Grant Slater <openstreet...@firefishy.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > Sorry for the extremely short notice... > > The OpenStreetMap map API will be read-only for t

[OSM-talk] API read-only for next 45mins

2016-05-04 Thread Grant Slater
Hi All, Sorry for the extremely short notice... The OpenStreetMap map API will be read-only for the next 45mins. Any unsaved changes can be saved at the end of the of the 45mins maintenance window. Maintenance will end at: 4:15pm GMT / UTC on 4th May 2016. Please see

[OSM-talk] Upcoming Planned outage - 9th May 2016

2016-05-02 Thread Grant Slater
Hi All, On the 9th of May 2016 the primary OpenStreetMap database will be read-only for important maintenance. Editing the map will not be possible during the maintenance. Full announcement is available here: https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2016/05/02/planned-server-outage-9th-may/ The

[talk-au] AGRI Imagery

2016-02-02 Thread Grant Slater
Hi Talk-AU, I'm still working to fully restore the Australian Geographic Reference Image (AGRI) site I run after the hardware failure... AGRI? https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Geographic_Reference_Image I now have the tiles up and running again and they can be used in the editors

Re: [Talk-GB] UK war office maps of Africa digitised

2016-02-01 Thread Grant Slater
On 31 January 2016 at 20:04, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > > For individual sheets like this, I think Mapwarper (mapwarper.net) is going > to be your best bet. It's not the sort of task that's well suited to the > techcentric skillset of OSM Operations (by which I mean Grant :)

Re: [OSM-talk] VisualEditor on the OSM wiki

2016-01-03 Thread Grant Slater
Hi All, Glad you like it. I enabled it 2 days ago. https://github.com/openstreetmap/chef/commit/8d3c08fa5ec0a351555df7629083c7f54ad262fb The Parsoid API is now supported, which should allow http://www.kiwix.org/ to make an offline copy of the OSM wiki. Kind regards, Grant On 3 January 2016

[OSM-talk] Disruption of OpenStreetMap Access

2015-12-08 Thread Grant Slater
Hi All, OpenStreetMap.org is currently suffering from a partial outage due to a major denial of service attack against the UK Academic Network. The outage mostly affects those outside of the UK. An outage like this is extremely rare. The operation team will implement a workaround if the

Re: [OSM-talk] Disruption of OpenStreetMap Access

2015-12-08 Thread Grant Slater
Hi All, All services are now back and running. If you are still experiencing problems, please report them in #osm-dev on http://irc.openstreetmap.org Kind regards, Grant Part of the OpenStreetMap operations team. On 8 December 2015 at 11:48, Grant Slater <openstreet...@firefishy.com>

[OSM-Talk-ZA] Micro Mapping Informal Settlement

2015-09-01 Thread Grant Slater
Hi All, There is some amazing on-the-ground micro mapping of a location in Cape Town. They are using GPS & fieldpapers https://twitter.com/osmcbba/status/636146688701374464 Map: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/-34.02332/18.65585 A big welcome to our new mappers :-) Kind regards, Grant

Re: [Talk-GB] Openstreetmap Foundation Charity Number

2015-08-18 Thread Grant Slater
On 18 August 2015 at 12:40, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 18/08/15 12:16, Bob Kerr wrote: I am just about to post an advert in the big issue for our International Development Fair http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_of_the_Map_Scotland_2015/Day_1 and I get to save paying vat if

[OSM-talk] Important Maintenance shortly

2015-07-27 Thread Grant Slater
Hi All, OpenStreetMap website + API will be read-only midday to 1pm (UTC/GMT) later today for important hardware maintenance. Apologies for the short notice. Mappers will not be able to save map updates during this maintenance window. For status updates during the maintenance window please

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Street View April 2014 Release?

2015-07-09 Thread Grant Slater
, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: Hi Talk-GB, Does anyone have a copy of the April/May 2014 release of the Ordnance Survey Street View OpenData? Files names are eg: osstvw_na.zip I have a near complete collection: 2010-04, 2010-11, 2011-05, 2011-11, 2012-05, 2012-11, 2013-05, 2013

[Talk-GB] OS Street View April 2014 Release?

2015-07-08 Thread Grant Slater
Hi Talk-GB, Does anyone have a copy of the April/May 2014 release of the Ordnance Survey Street View OpenData? Files names are eg: osstvw_na.zip I have a near complete collection: 2010-04, 2010-11, 2011-05, 2011-11, 2012-05, 2012-11, 2013-05, 2013-11, 2014-10 2015-05 I run the OpenStreetMap's

Re: [OSM-talk] API down?

2015-07-04 Thread Grant Slater
Hi All, Sorry about the earlier outage. All fixed now. We had a server outage. Kind regards, Grant OSM ops team On 4 Jul 2015 2:20 pm, Blake Girardot bgirar...@gmail.com wrote: Is down for me too. On 7/4/2015 3:00 PM, Maarten Deen wrote: Hi, it seems the api is down? I can't get a

Re: [OSM-talk] a, b and c.tile.openstreetmap.org refer to the same server?

2015-05-17 Thread Grant Slater
On 17 May 2015 at 16:30, Richard Z. ricoz@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 05:09:59PM +0200, Jochen Topf wrote: On So, Mai 17, 2015 at 04:46:24 +0200, Maarten Deen wrote: Is it normal that the a, b and c.tile.openstreetmap.org IP-adresses refer to the same server? For me, they

Re: [OSM-talk] Please ban Xxzme in wiki

2015-05-10 Thread Grant Slater
Hi Ilya, Consulting with a few other users, I have gone ahead and blocked the user. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:BlockList?wpTarget=Xxzme His last block was for a month. I have given him a 3 month block this time. Kind regards, Grant On 10 May 2015 at 11:14, Ilya Zverev

Re: [OSM-talk] Please ban Xxzme in wiki

2015-05-10 Thread Grant Slater
an administrator bureaucrat on the OSM wiki. ;-) To others: Check out Andy's credentials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing Kind regards, Grant On 10 May 2015 at 13:47, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: On 10 May 2015 at 11:40, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote

[OSM-Talk-ZA] Fwd: invitation

2015-03-11 Thread Grant Slater
-- Forwarded message -- From: alyssa wright alyssapwri...@gmail.com Date: 5 March 2015 at 16:03 Subject: invitation To: talk-za-ow...@openstreetmap.org I would love to extend the invite to SOTM US to members of your community. Let me know if you have any questions. Hi!

[OSM-talk] Partial Website + API outage

2015-03-09 Thread Grant Slater
Hi All, OpenStreetMap is currently offline due to a network problem at the data centre which hosts us. Status updates here: https://twitter.com/OSM_Tech/ Alternative: #osm-dev on http://irc.openstreetmap.org/ We are trying to get everything back up ASAP, but currently do not yet have an ETA.

Re: [OSM-talk] Partial Website + API outage

2015-03-09 Thread Grant Slater
On 9 Mar 2015 17:38, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: Hi All, OpenStreetMap is currently offline due to a network problem at the data centre which hosts us. Status updates here: https://twitter.com/OSM_Tech/ Alternative: #osm-dev on http://irc.openstreetmap.org/ We

Re: [OSM-talk] High load on the rendering servers?

2015-03-07 Thread Grant Slater
Hi Andrew, Yes were are aware there is an issue. We haven't yet tracked down the issue. We have been discussing it in #osm-dev on http://irc.openstreetmap.org today. Kind regards, Grant Part of the OSM sysadmin On 6 March 2015 at 15:20, Andrew Guertin andrew.guer...@uvm.edu wrote: For the

Re: [OSM-talk] Unplanned OSM Outage

2014-12-14 Thread Grant Slater
Hi All, Quick confirmation, all services are up again and back to normal. The network issues where resolved around 01:30am GMT/UTC. Kind regards, Grant Part of the OpenStreetMap sysadmin team On 13 December 2014 at 20:31, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: Hi All, OpenStreetMap

[OSM-talk] Unplanned OSM Outage

2014-12-13 Thread Grant Slater
Hi All, OpenStreetMap is currently offline due to a major network outage at the institution hosting of primary services. Website, DB, API, wiki offline. The OpenStreetMap operations team are currently investigating and will return the services as soon as possible. For further updates best to

Re: [Talk-GB] ooc.openstreetmap.org

2014-11-06 Thread Grant Slater
Hi All, The server hosting is offline due to a combination of hardware failure and power limit to the server rack. The latter being more difficult to solve. In the next few weeks hope to have it resolved. Kind regards, Grant Part of OSM sysadmin team On 6 November 2014 17:26, Ed Loach

Re: [OSM-talk] Download source of all wikipages?

2014-10-24 Thread Grant Slater
Hi Richard, https://dump.wiki.openstreetmap.org (currently offline) had daily exports of the wiki. I will try bring it back online in the next few days. Kind regards, Grant Part of OSM sysadmin team. On 24 October 2014 10:58, Richard Z. ricoz@gmail.com wrote: Hi, is it possible to

Re: [talk-au] AGRI.openstreetmap.org not working

2014-08-10 Thread Grant Slater
Harvey andrew.harv...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 July 2014 15:30, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: We had a problem with the server (faffy) which runs agri.openstreetmap.org, it no longer starts up, we were limited on time and were not able to get it up and running again. I

Re: [Talk-GB] osm 10th birthday: press

2014-07-27 Thread Grant Slater
Hi All, OK, lets be crazy and try crowd source a 10th Birthday press release: Draft here, be bold, anyone can edit: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NJjR5jZTCFR84apn3UoyzXKUyfkAG3-ceQ9rv1Rg6ZA/edit?usp=sharing Kind regards, Grant On 23 July 2014 21:23, Dan S danstowell+...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [OSM-talk] Where did we get 500000 new users?

2014-07-26 Thread Grant Slater
On 25 July 2014 16:00, Jukka Rahkonen jukka.rahko...@latuviitta.fi wrote: There is a big jump in the number of OSM users between 20th and 21st of July, why? See http://osmstats.altogetherlost.com/ The stats page: http://www.openstreetmap.org/stats/data_stats.html recently broke due to

Re: [OSM-talk] faffy.openstreetmap.org down?

2014-07-22 Thread Grant Slater
http://os.openstreetmap.org/ is up again. It is a little rough around the edges, but good enough for now. The other imagery datasets on faffy are still offline... / Grant ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] NOTICE: Mail Disruption overnight outage

2014-07-17 Thread Grant Slater
again. (Old DNS records expiry) Sorry for the disruption. Kind regards, Grant Slater On behalf of the OpenStreetMap sysadmin team ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] faffy.openstreetmap.org down?

2014-07-06 Thread Grant Slater
Hi, Yes, we were unable to revive server faffy after the server move. I will try see what imagery layers I can re-create today, else it may take just over a week before we can swap out the server for replacement hardware. / Grant On 6 July 2014 11:28, Andy Street a...@street.me.uk wrote: I

Re: [OSM-talk] faffy.openstreetmap.org down?

2014-07-06 Thread Grant Slater
On 6 July 2014 12:00, Andy Street a...@street.me.uk wrote: On Sun, 6 Jul 2014 11:32:55 +0100 Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: Yes, we were unable to revive server faffy after the server move. I will try see what imagery layers I can re-create today, else it may take just over

Re: [talk-au] AGRI.openstreetmap.org not working

2014-07-05 Thread Grant Slater
Hi, We had a problem with the server (faffy) which runs agri.openstreetmap.org, it no longer starts up, we were limited on time and were not able to get it up and running again. I will visit the data centre in a week to fix or replace the hardware. Regards Grant Part of sysadmin team On 6

[OSM-talk] NOTICE: Upcoming Maintenance - Some services will be down

2014-07-01 Thread Grant Slater
center. The current building is being closed soon for refurbishment. The new data center has better server racks, power feeds, cooling and faster networking. [1] Searches through the website will still work - we will redirect them to another nominatim instance temporarily. Sincerely Grant Slater

Re: [OSM-talk] tile.openstreetmap.org throws 500 for (some) https calls

2014-06-29 Thread Grant Slater
Which cache server are you using? Check here: https://a.tile.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/debug / Grant On 29 Jun 2014 16:05, Nicolas Dietrich n...@posteo.net wrote: Hi there, it looks like the tile.openstreetmap.org servers randomly throw 500 errors for the default map being served over https.

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Gautrain Bus Mapping

2014-05-02 Thread Grant Slater
Hi, On 2 May 2014 16:15, John john@gmail.com wrote: I may be able to get a list of all bus stops including GPS coordinates directly from Gautrain. Awesome! Do it, we are still lacking the locations of most of the Gautrain Bus stops... Rea Vaya bus stops are even worse. Two questions:

Re: [talk-au] AU openstreetmapS.com domain squatter

2014-03-21 Thread Grant Slater
On 21 March 2014 00:48, Michael Gratton m...@vee.net wrote: Whois reports the registrar is KEY-SYSTEMS GMBH http://www.key-systems.net/, which appears to be a German registrar. Yes, I contacted them a few months ago. Received a response, unlikely to have much luck following that route. I'll

Re: [talk-au] AU openstreetmapS.com domain squatter

2014-03-21 Thread Grant Slater
On 20 March 2014 21:56, David Bannon dban...@internode.on.net wrote: Grant, are you suggesting the domain is being held in a cyber squatting mode ? That Michael is holding it with the intention of making a profit from it ? The domain is used to catch openstreetmap typos. Many newbies

[talk-au] AU openstreetmapS.com domain squatter

2014-03-20 Thread Grant Slater
Hi OSM Australia, Anyone up for this? The openstreetmapS.com domain is being held by Michael Gilmour of parklogic.com for sale. He is based in Camberwell, Victoria, Australia. The domain was originally registered on behalf of OpenStreetMap in 2007 but was accidentally not renewed. Would any

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Cadastral Information from Chief Surveyor

2014-03-12 Thread Grant Slater
Hi mtb, They offer a complete set of high resolution sheets on 3x DVD. The set is available at cost from their offices in Cape Town (and likely others). Unfortunately the sheets are not cropped and include the collar (title, map key etc). I haven't yet tried to automate the copping. I have a

Re: [OSM-talk] Free OSM tile services?

2014-03-06 Thread Grant Slater
On 6 March 2014 11:38, Stefan Keller sfkel...@gmail.com wrote: After cloudmade is closing their free OSM tile service, does anybody have an overview about alternatives (especially of 'nice' map styles and high-res tiles)? Good discussion here of alternatives:

[OSM-Talk-ZA] Lesotho Fire Hydrants

2014-02-27 Thread Grant Slater
Hi All, Interesting piece... Lesotho mapping Fire Hydrants using OpenStreetMap: http://rustyb.github.io/lesotho/2014/02/14/fire-hydrants.html / Grant ___ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap enhances user privacy

2014-02-11 Thread Grant Slater
On 11 February 2014 20:32, Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl wrote: I notice that https://wiki pages contain some http: absolute URLs... Embedded slippy maps are not showing either... Where's the place to log these bugs (assuming it is not 'by design')? If it is something simple easiest to

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] KZN Schools Data

2014-02-10 Thread Grant Slater
On 10 February 2014 09:47, m...@martinb.za.net wrote: Hi all, I came across this the other day: http://www.education.gov.za/EMIS/EMISDownloads/tabid/466/Default.aspx It is spatial data for all the schools in the country. I am not sure whether this can be used or not, but it might be useful

[OSM-talk] Default OSM Tiles via HTTPS (Testing)

2014-02-06 Thread Grant Slater
Hi OSM Talk, Approximately 20% of visitors to OpenStreetMap.org today will receive the default tiles via HTTPS (ssl/tls). This is to test HTTPS on our CDN infrastructure. If anyone experiences any problems please can you report them in channel #osm on http://irc.openstreetmap.org/ Technical:

Re: [Talk-GB] Warwickshire County Council releases aerial imagery

2014-01-14 Thread Grant Slater
On 14 January 2014 10:43, Brian Prangle bpran...@gmail.com wrote: You can find them here http://wppgeog3/gs/Aerial_Photography/wms . JOSM users just add to your imagery layers under preferences. I don't know how to add it to Potlatch, not being a heavy user. The above URL will not work... Is

Re: [Talk-GB] Warwickshire County Council releases aerial imagery

2014-01-14 Thread Grant Slater
On 14 January 2014 10:43, Brian Prangle bpran...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone Warwickshire County Council have released 3 sets of aerial imagery under OGL. Brian: Where did you get this information? I cannot find any public reference to the imagery being released under OGL. I recommend that

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Gautrain Bus Mapping

2013-12-05 Thread Grant Slater
On 21 November 2013 04:37, John john@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Grant, 1) I really like the live map. I have been looking for a browser based map showing live buses!! I am sitting on the bus now and it is accurate including buses going in the opposite direction. Sometimes it is less good

Re: [OSM-talk] Good use of time ...

2013-12-02 Thread Grant Slater
On 2 December 2013 13:45, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote: On 2013-12-02 14:38, Barry Hunter wrote: On 2 December 2013 13:17, Lester Caine wrote: what is 'export' intended to do? It gives option to select an area, then download a osm XML file. Exports the map as data. If the area is

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Data Import

2013-11-26 Thread Grant Slater
Hi Christoff, Do you have an extract or sample of the data we could look at? Approximately how much data in total? Was there an initial failed import which needs reverting? Regards Grant On 27 November 2013 07:07, Christoff Pretorius pretoriu...@gmail.com wrote: Good Day I am looking at

[OSM-talk] NOTICE: Upcoming Maintenance / Downtime

2013-11-25 Thread Grant Slater
: Maps will still be viewable on the openstreetmap.org homepage and on other people's websites. 2: The sysadmin team will try as far as possible to keep the API available in read-only mode, but the API may be briefly unavailable. Sincerely Grant Slater On behalf of the OpenStreetMap sysadmin team

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Nkandla on OpenStreetMap

2013-11-22 Thread Grant Slater
On 22 November 2013 06:36, Dawid Loubser da...@travellinck.com wrote: How poignant after the recent attempts of the ANC to hide information about this disgrace. Oh? I hadn't noticed /sarcasm ;-) Most of the photos published over the last few months are taken from along this track:

[OSM-Talk-ZA] Nkandla on OpenStreetMap

2013-11-21 Thread Grant Slater
Hi Talk-ZA, The location of the Nkandla homestead is difficult to find, so I've added it to OpenStreetMap: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/2539583622 Aerial imagery before major construction: http://aerial.openstreetmap.org.za/?zoom=17lat=-28.84371lon=31.0988 Bing aerial imagery is

[Talk-GB] Updated OS StreetView Diffs

2013-11-21 Thread Grant Slater
Talk-GB, I have updated the Ordnance Survey OpenData StreetView edition difference maps I produce. I have added the diffs: November 2012 to May 2013 and May 2013 to November 2013 There are also diffs for each release since the first release in April 2010. Ordnance Survey over the last 6 months

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