Map Updates 2. October 2012 – first odbl licensed maps

Well, after my trip is over, yesterday and today I worked about 24 hours to get the map updates ready…. During my trip and the subsequent freeride and bikepark buikeguide education – the internet connection was simply too shaky, and I didn't have enough time anyhow (luckily 3 weeks biking, with overall 3 half rainy days only…).

 

So todays/tomorrows updates are the first using odbl licensed data (the last map update, used odbl cleaned data – but it was still CCBYSA 2.0 licensed). Therefore I needed to make sure to delete all old map data from my server, in order not to publish mixed data or something else. Besides Asia (full continent – as usual) all countries compiled fine (Asia got stuck somewhere). Besides I removed quite a few bugs – which mainly affected the VeloMap.

Both OpenMTBMap and VeloMap:

Better detection of steps=yes and stricter avoidance of steps for the VeloMap.

 

Bugs (mainly) affecting the VeloMap:

Mountainbikeroutes were faulty shown/included (should be used for better autorouting on paved streets only). Also fixed some bugs that maybe sometimes a cycleroute name was shown instead of the mtb route name in OpenMTBMap, and VeloMap vice versa.

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Big Map Update September 2012

Well, long time no see, here is another newsletter (and probably the longest ever) from Openmtmbap.org & www.VeloMap.org

 

New maps as well as old CCBYSA 2.0 maps up for download now!

(eine abgekürzte Version der News auf Deutsch gibt es hier: http://www.mtb-news.de/forum/showthread.php?p=9860635#post9860635 )

Maybe many of you thought, that there is no news due to me being on holidays, but actually I tried to work all of July and August, and improved many many things on the OpenMTBMap and VeloMap. But first of all, let's start with the license change.

The last map updates were on July 13, one day before the redaction bot started to take out all data from OSM, that wasn't compatible with the new odbl license. This gave me the chance to try out and hack away; to bring many improvements and some new features.

Yesterday, it was announced that the next planet file will be published under odbl. Therefore I used the last CCBYSA data, to compile new maps. Reason being, that the coastlines and boundaries are still from pre-redaction time, and hence no flooding should occur, and search working a bit better, and I don't yet need to change the license.

Consequently as […]