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Hi,
I've now finished setting up renderd properly on ptolemy. This runs
under the "osm" account, and is installed in $HOME/renderd/. Anyone in
the osm MMT can edit the config to change or add styles. (Right now
that's only me and mazder, but additional maintainers would be welcome.)
Example: http://toolserver.org/tiles/osm/2/2/1
The setup is documented at <https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Admin:OSM>.
- river.
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Cassini used to only assign 24MB of shared memory to PostgreSQL, I
changed that to 128MB.
We mostly seemed to be IO-bound on cassini so it looks like this has helped..
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:26, Dmitry Granovsky
<dima.granovsky(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, Ævar!
>
> Some time ago you set up a server (http://cassini.toolserver.org)
> providing Mapnik tiles in a number of languages, which is really great
> for anyone dealing with name localization in OSM, like me. As far as I
> can see, it's been a long time since the last update. Therefore I was
> wondering if any further updates are planned. If you just don't have
> sufficient time, maybe you could hand the server management to someone
> else?
Maps-l is the best venue to discuss stuff like this. CCing it.
Those servers need a lot of love. People other than me have been doing
some work on it recently.
We're very interested in getting more people involved. Are you
interested in helping in any way?
Hi,
I'm sorry about the state of the OSM Toolserver. I said I would fix it, but
I didn't. However, I will finally be having a look at this tomorrow (or
possibly Thursday). Before I do that, there's a couple of things I'd like
to address.
Firstly, PostgreSQL. On cassini, some users had either root access or
access to the postgres user. I don't feel comfortable doing this on ptolemy
(and it would also mean using separate database passwords, etc. just for
that server). However, I can give out full (owner) access to the 'osm'
database.
Rather than give this to a single user, I think it makes sense to create a
multi-maintainer project to handle OSM databases. An MMT[0] is a role
account that multiple users have access to. The 'osm' MMT will have owner
access to the osm database on ptolemy. Since this does not confer any
additional privileges, and the OSM data is not private, we can easily add
people to the MMT (Peter, Tim?), and these people will be responsible for
ensuring the database is available.
This is better than the current situation where only I have access, since
I'm not particularly familiar with either OSM or the PostgreSQL extensions
it uses. However, final responsibility for the OSM database (as well as
software installation/changes) will still lie with me.
If this sounds acceptable to everyone, I will drop the current outdated osm
database on ptolemy, and create a new, empty database and the MMT. People
who want access to the MMT should let me know (by replying to this mail with
your TS username). Those people can then start on the process of importing
the database and setting up replication.
Secondly: renderd/mod_tile. I'm open to suggestions here. Currently, I
plan to run renderd and mod_tile on ptolemy, which means only I will have
access. However, there are quite a few portability issues with the OSM
software which I've had to fix. I would appreciate it if someone with
commit access to OSM's SVN repository would be able to work with me to
integrate these patches, to make things easier in future.
I will wait until PostgreSQL is working well before starting on rendered.
Regards,
River.
[0] https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Multi-maintainer_projects
Hi everyone,
As you might know I uploaded 250.000 images from
http://www.geograph.org.uk/ to Wikimedia Commons. Of course these images
need to be categorized. For this I use reverse geocoding : I know
coordinates of the location, I just need to know the name of the location.
I used http://ws.geonames.org/extendedFindNearby for this (worked at
that time, seems to be down at the moment). Results seem to be pretty
good, but some more accurate results would be nice.
Someone had already pointed out to me that I could use the reverse
geocoding feature of Nominatim
(http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim) to categorize images at
Commons. I just implemented it and this tool seems to catch a lot of
images in the overcrowded categories. Would it be possible to set up a
local copy of this tool at the OSM toolserver?
Maarten
Hello all,
cassini was non-responsive to ssh today (it made also problems in the days
before) and so I (hard-)rebooted it today and made some updates. Details under
https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/MNT-387
Sincerly,
DaB.
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