Unfortunately the rendering service on the web site has been more down than up-and-working lately, and this mailing list, the IRC channel and git repositories have been showing next-to zero activity for quite a while.
So this brings up the question what the current status of the site, and of the project in general, is. Regarding the web site / online render service: * Is there anything one could help with? Looks as if the main problem seems to be to keep the PostGIS database up and running? * What to you think about others setting up alternative service sites using the MapOSMatic code base? (This would obviously cut into potential paypal donation revenues, but at the current state there's probably not any inflow from that anyway?) Regarding the state of development: I've put some effort into getting things running on a current version of Ubuntu lately. I ran into quite some interesting obstacles on the way, but now I've got almost everything up and running. The only thing that still doesn't seen to work out ok is the Nominatim search box ... Using current Ubuntu cuts down installation efforts quite a bit as most required tools, like e.g. osm2pgsql now come in a version current enough to be used out of the box. The only thing that still needs to be compiled instead of just installing a distribution package is Mapnik as there is a bug that is only fixed in the 2.3beta and 3.0 versions of Mapnik. And Mapnik 3 can't be used as it totally changed the Python bindings ... I've also updated the default OSM stylesheet to the current Carto-OSM one and added a few other tiny bits here and there ... So the main question is: how to get these changes merged? As the main repositories are on Savannah, with GitHub repositories only being mirrors on these: * should I create bug tickets in Savannah and attach patches there? * or should I send patches to this list? * or (preferred) file pull requests against the GitHub repository mirrors? Currently my patched versions live in * https://github.com/hholzgra/ocitysmap * https://github.com/hholzgra/maposmatic but everything for now just lives in the "master" branches, there'd be some need for separating changes into separate feature branches before thinking about merging anything from there. I've also wrapped up everything I learned about how to get things running on an Ubuntu 15.10 VM in this Vagrant setup: * https://github.com/hholzgra/maposmatic-vagrant which creates a running instance listening on http://localhost:8000/ from the given data.osm.pbf file on running "vagrant up" -- hartmut
