As already mentioned at last year’s AGM, we got a new server, and we have now taken this server into operation. Thank you to Init7 for sponsoring the hosting of this server.
The new server enables us to now render OSM data worldwide.
We are now offering a download of pre rendered tiles up to zoom level 17 on https://tile.osm.ch/tiles.html. The tiles are split up into the cantons as the whole of Switzerland is quite a large amount of Data.
You can download them to either host them yourself, or use them in an offline application.
Update: the old interface is turned off. The new one is available at routing.osm.ch
There is a new routing user interface for osrm which I am testing at routingnew.osm.ch. I would welcome feedback here as a comment or on the Swiss mailing list.
There was no easy way forward. A little background: Last year, we bough some shiny new SSDs to speed up our servers.
I decided to install the new Ubuntu 16.04 onto the new disks, the new long term support version. In the mean time, most services are moved to the server with the new Ubuntu and the SSDs, except routing. I couldn’t get our old version of OSRM to run on Ubuntu 16.04, so I was forced to upgrade to the newest version. But a lot was changed in OSRM in the mean time: the API for routing requests as well as the syntax for the routing profiles. That is the main reason why we still run such an old version. The old user interface we used is no longer maintained, therefore incompatible with the current API. But there is a brand new one, which does not support multiple routing profiles. So starting at the hack weekend in Karlsruhe, I hacked the profile selector into the new interface.
The plan is now to switch to the new OSRM and user interface on Sunday, March 19th.
A new version of umap was released a few weeks ago and we have updated our instance at umap.osm.ch to the newest version. New features include:
Thank you to Yohan Boniface, who is the main developer, for providing us with such a nice tool.