Re: [talk-au] New Australian caching server. Feedback?
Ben wrote 'Classic. You know you've got an OSM addiction problem when... ' What!! - I've only got 28 GPS units, at last count :-) Actually, with so many unit on me when I ride the bike (3 or 4) I thought I'd try to see if they interfered with each other. I believe this is why some airlines (or Captains) disallow GPS usage on a flight. (They think that GPS units act as some sort of secondary re-transmitter of the GPS signal. Anyway I dont believe that the units (in the 3 back pockets of my bike top) caused each other any problems. Having said that though, when the Qstarz 10hz unit was in one of the pockets, it was about 30 metres off for the first 20 laps then jumped a further 20 meters away for the next 20. I think that this unit just requires a better look at the sky than other units since the next day I had it strapped to the top of my helmet and it was bang on. (It did cause my head to overheat probably from breaking up the airflow). Last weekend the Qstarz 10hz performed poorly in the car so I need to do a lot more tests on it. Im going to have to buy one more logger. The Holux GPSport 260pro is as good ad the 260 but also will talk to ANT+ heartrate and cadence monitors. This is importand for me because it is not easy to read my Garmin gps watch while I am riding flat out and the Holux is easiy handlebar mounted. PS - I just saw that Cobago suffered a mapslide in the redaction process. I won't be able to get down there for a couple of months so if anyone is driving past, I t would only take half an hour to basic road map it! CHeers Nick ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] New Australian caching server. Feedback?
Classic. You know you've got an OSM addiction problem when... On 08/10/2012, at 0:26, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote: Today I had 8 gps units in the car and 5 were logging With that density, the traces you make on some residential streets must somewhat resemble the harbour bridge. :-p. Seriously tho... great simple idea to get multi traces in one sweep if u have the devices (and they're switched on, of course)! ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] New Australian caching server. Feedback?
Grant wrote Have you noticed faster tiles this week? Certainly have.Many thanks Kris Ive just spent 5 hours editing in my mapping travels from today so the faster tile server really helped out. It is really fast. Ive also been fixing hundreds of keep right errors in Canberra, so Fast tiles are a must at the moment. Today I had 8 gps units in the car and 5 were logging . A sixth, my favourite, a Garmin 310xt forerunner was not logging because I forgot to turn it on:-( The Holux GPSSport 260 works really well, and has a good visualizer and will plot waypoints as well as tracks - really nice to use. The Qstarz 10 points per second logger is good for track work on the bike but does tend to drift out of position now and again. It also runs out of log space after a few hours. The Iphone/5 mytracks app is excellent and along with the voice memos make detailed mapping from a car quite possible. However I must look for a better audio app that will geotag my recordings so that I don't have to describe my position all the time and take waypoints with one of the loggers and then try to match them up. It works but is a pain. The io-data/holux-m-241 logger worked well and was the best for taking waypoints (the qstarz is also very handy for waypoints). So with faster tiles and better survey equipment I managed to reclaim lots of data today and get lots of new info as well. It's fun to be mapping again even if it is tearing hell out of my car. Nick ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] New Australian caching server. Feedback?
This is awesome news. Thank you very much to Kris - this is very generous indeed. The responsiveness is much better! :-)) BJ On 05/10/2012, at 12:26 AM, Grant Slater wrote: OSM Australia, Have you noticed faster tiles this week? Australia now has a map caching server located in Brisbane. The server is used to speed up the standard tile.osm.org Mapnik map style. Browsing the map on http://www.openstreetmap.org/ should now be more responsive. This new server, named 'bunyip', first started providing tiles on Tuesday. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
[talk-au] New Australian caching server. Feedback?
OSM Australia, Have you noticed faster tiles this week? Australia now has a map caching server located in Brisbane. The server is used to speed up the standard tile.osm.org Mapnik map style. Browsing the map on http://www.openstreetmap.org/ should now be more responsive. This new server, named 'bunyip', first started providing tiles on Tuesday. We thank Kris Amy ( https://twitter.com/krisamy ) for providing the server and hosting. Thank you, Kris! If anyone experiences any issues or hiccups, please let me know. Technical: Server specs are here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Servers/bunyip OpenStreetMap tile servers use GeoDNS (PowerDNS with Geo backend) to locate the closest tile server. The DNS regions / cache-server can be viewed here: http://dns.openstreetmap.org/tile.openstreetmap.org.html To check which server you are being directed to use the command: nslookup tile.openstreetmap.org or dig tile.openstreetmap.org Regards Grant Part of OSM sysadmin team ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
