Hello, Following our announcement this morning, we faced a sudden crash of our web server VM. This has been fixed, and the service is now available again.
Best regards, Thomas Le Wed, 18 Apr 2012 08:58:23 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni <[email protected]> a écrit : > Hello, > > In September 2009, we launched MapOSMatic (http://www.maposmatic.org), > a free web service that allows to render city maps on-demand based on > OpenStreetMap data. Those city maps, divided into squares, are > associated with a street index, making the process of locating a > street on the map easier. > > We are proud to announce today the launch of a new version of > MapOSMatic, which is the result of significant development > efforts. Amongst the new features: > > * The rendering of poster maps is now done on large standard paper > formats (A3, A2, A1, etc.), automatically chosen depending on the > geographical size of the city, instead of arbitrarily-sized papers > that were hard to print. The end result is close to commercial > folded maps; > > * The ability to render multi-page maps, where the map and street > index are split into several pages, for easier printing on regular > paper formats (A5, A4, US Letter). Those multi-page maps are > similar to commercial city booklets; > > * The availability of several rendering styles. For now, we provide > the standard OpenStreetMap.org style, several styles provided by > MapQuest, and a custom style more suitable for printing. In the > future, we expect to extend those styles, or even to let users > provide their own styles. Do not hesitate to contact us about > custom styles; > > * Improvements in the selection of cities: in the previous versions, > we were limited to OpenStreetMap areas of a certain administrative > level; > > * And many, many other smaller features and improvements: quality of > the renderings, better user interface to render maps, last OSM > database update date printed on the map, etc. > > MapOSMatic is completely free software, distributed under the terms of > the Affero General Public License v3. The project is available through > Git repositories, has a mailing-list and an IRC channel. For details, > see our About page (http://www.maposmatic.org/about), our wiki > (http://wiki.maposmatic.org) and the Savannah project page > (http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/maposmatic/). > > In addition to the launch of this new version, we are also starting a > donation campaign. The project is completely developed and maintained > by volunteers, but we need funding to cover hardware costs and > transportations costs to organize the developer meetings during which > MapOSMatic improvements are implemented (see our blog at > http://news.maposmatic.org). If you appreciate MapOSMatic, do not > hesitate to help us by donating with PayPal on > http://www.maposmatic.org/donate. > > Best regards, > > Thomas Petazzoni -- Thomas Petazzoni http://thomas.enix.org MapOSMatic http://www.maposmatic.org Logiciels Libres à Toulouse http://www.toulibre.org Embedded Linux http://www.free-electrons.com _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
