Not sure, I could understand, I think New Zealnd takes 2-3 hours max to generate the map. And all maps are generated 8-9 days.
Live maps are quick cause they are generated incrementally but they require 24/7 monitoring system to properly catch up with all changes. Best Regards, Victor On Thu, 4 Jul 2019 at 07:30, Mark Begbie <begbiem...@gmail.com> wrote: > I totally get that the map updates are getting more complex. I'm trying > to build New Zealand on a Win 10 Core i7 with 8GB of RAM and struggling. > > What I do NOT get at all, is how on the one hand it takes almost a month > to update the map for one group of users and yet for another group it's > done hourly. Something just smells really bad about that. > > I get, too, that developers need to find ways to deliver recurrent revenue > and one time subscriptions with forever map downloads doesn't deliver > that. Perhaps ending the one-time payment option would be a way to go? I > don't know. Getting a little off topic now, but another thing that worries > me is the mapper payments reference in the OSMAnd live information. I > spend a lot of time mapping, and I don't expect to be paid. What worries > me though, is if there's a precedent set for paying for content it could > upset and derail the whole free input free output model that the OSM data > set is built on. Payments should relate to value add services on top of > the data, which should be available to all. > > On Tuesday, 18 June 2019 01:54:24 UTC+12, V S wrote: >> >> All maps are updated now. Please use OsmAnd Live subscription and you >> will get incremental map updates every hour. >> Our full generation map update is becoming more complicated and this >> month it was delayed by 5 days because of hardware issues though it is >> expected that it could take 2-3 weeks and maps of 1st/XX/20YY will be >> produced at 20/XX/20YY >> >> On Friday, 14 June 2019 06:31:05 UTC+2, Mark Begbie wrote: >>> >>> I'm getting increasingly frustrated with the schedule for map updates. >>> We're now on the 14th of June and the New Zealand map update to 1st of June >>> hasn't been released yet. I could understand if it were not for Osmand >>> also offering daily and hourly updates for people that pay a higher fee. >>> If all maps, globally, can be updated hourly, how can it possibly be >>> justifiable to take over two weeks to roll that update out to other users? >>> >>> One of the great things about OSM is the crowd sourcing nature of the >>> map. If I'm travelling somewhere I typically look at the map and add areas >>> of interest to it before I go. That way everyone can benefit from the >>> research I do before I go somewhere. With now a 6 week plus lag between >>> early month updates and the map being rolled out that doesn't really work. >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Osmand" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/osmand/B3HMYXY507E/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > osmand+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/osmand/aa45a01b-629b-449a-9c55-f377a5aec229%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/osmand/aa45a01b-629b-449a-9c55-f377a5aec229%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Osmand" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to osmand+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/osmand/CAB3%3DdEs_UVBpexJRzCudDyRb0Cd7e2yQd9P%3D3mj5OpJSMfGCwg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
