MapOSMatic

You probably noticed that our copy of OpenStreetMap database has not been updated for more than two months. In fact, our current storage space of about 500 GB was completely filled by the database. The good news is that we are currently in the process of changing that storage! Two new Samsung S840 Evo 1 [...]

Good news everyone: MapOSMatic is back! Several months ago, our copy of the OSM database started to have major issues and got corrupted, unfortunately beyond recovery. We needed to re-import the full database. At the same time, we were having ... [More] performance issues with the OSM data replication because the traditional, rotational the hard drive of [...] [Less]

Our OSM database is currently down therefore the MapOSMatic website no longer works. We currently don’t know how long it will take to restore the system. Edit 2012-09-18 16:24: Our database is corrupted and PostgreSQL does not restart. It might take a long time to restore a new one.

Our OSM database is currently down therefore the MapOSMatic website no longer works. We currently don’t know how long it will take to restore the system. Edit 2012-09-18 16:24: Our database is corrupted and PostgreSQL does not restart. It might take a long time to restore a new one.

Our OSM database is currently down therefore the MapOSMatic website no longer works. We currently don’t know how long it will take to restore the system. Edit 2012-09-18 16:24: Our database is corrupted and PostgreSQL does not restart. It might take a long time to restore a new one.

The Libre Software Meeting is a community driven conference on open-source, which will take place this year from July 7th to July 12th in Geneva, Switzerland. The entrance to this conference is free, and it covers a very wide range of topics. Thomas Petazzoni, one of the MapOSMatic developers, will be given a talk about [...]

The Libre Software Meeting is a community driven conference on open-source, which will take place this year from July 7th to July 12th in Geneva, Switzerland. The entrance to this conference is free, and it covers a very wide range of topics. Thomas Petazzoni, one of the MapOSMatic developers, will be given a talk about [...]

In September 2009, we launched MapOSMatic, 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 [...]

The hackfest is now finished! The last changes were committed by Thomas at 9:00 on ocitysmap module and at 9:30 on maposmatic module this April 1st. Overall we have committed 127 changes on the ocitysmap module (17848 lines added, 3713 lines removed) and 40 changes on maposmatic module (3532 lines added, 1544 lines removed) over [...]

Once again, we have done significant progress yesterday. Thomas worked on: The front page for a multi-page map with a nice title, the map overview and the map information (last database update time, copyright, etc.); A nice Donate page. We hope to be able to buy some hardware to increase the responsiveness of our server [...]