#OpenStreetMap hack weekend kicking off today. We've had to move from our usual venue at the office. But it looks like every found the way here. ^R

We hosting another #OpenStreetMap Hack Weekend in Karlsruhe. 23/24 Feb. Everyone welcome. No charge. wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Karlsruhe…

We're joining Wikipedia, openstreetmap.de & many others by blacking out our download.geofabrik.de web site for a day to make people aware of the threat that #artikel13 of the planned EU copyright directive poses for OpenStreetMap. #uploadfilter #SaveYourInternet

The PBF files we generated today on the download server were accidentally incompatible with osmium versions before 2.14 (and therefore, incompatible with osm2pgsql 0.94). They are being replaced by old-style compatible files now.

Small hiccup on our OpenStreetMap download server today, tonight's updates are coming through now.

Pro tip: If you use our #openstreetmap download server and if you still the .osm.bz2 files, see if your toolchain perhaps supports the modern .osm.pbf format instead - leaner, faster to process, and usually more current than the .osm.bz2!

Frederik setzt einen kompletten OSM-Raster-Tileserver mit Tirex in 15 Minuten auf - am Donnerstag um 11:30 #FOSSGIS2020 fossgis-konferenz.de/2020/sessions/…

If you're wondering why last night's Australia/Oceania file on our #openstreetmap download server has grown a bit - we've modified it to include previously missing parts of Polynesia, adding extracts for Kiribati, Samoa, Tonga & others

State of the Map conference this weekend - lots of exciting OSM talks, discussions, and a quiz! See 2020.stateofthemap.org on how to participate online.

Hiccup on the download server - no updates last night. Catching up now.

On OSM Inspector (tools.geofabrik.de/osmi) the geometry, tagging, places, highways, and public transport views will now be updated twice daily, with a plan to increase frequency further early next year. Source for these is at github.com/geofabrik/osmi… and github.com/geofabrik/osmi…

Some performance issues on our #openstreetmap download server in the last couple of days but we've now installed two extra proxies so that's sorted. Also blocked a couple IPs that were downloading several TB each month. If something has stopped working for you, pls get in touch.

We've revamped the OSM Inspector backend and most views are now updated twice a day, with higher frequencies planned for the most popular views tools.geofabrik.de/osmi

#30DayMapChallenge Day 5 "OpenStreetMap". For OSM day I wanted to try and make the data a bit easier to use for #QGIS novices. I created styles that can be applied to the Geofabrik OpenStreetMap Shapefile extracts. Download here: github.com/HeikkiVesanto/…

"Shortbread" - a basic, lean, general-purpose vector tile schema for OpenStreetMap data, CC0/FTWPL licensed. Still work in progress but shortbread.geofabrik.de

We've made a few small UI improvements to our popular OSM Inspector tool - test drive on tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/ or read more on blog.geofabrik.de/?p=555

There's an issue with our latest .osm.pbf files on the download server that makes them unreadable with Osmosis. osc files/xml files not affected. Fix expected tomorrow.

Some of our free shape files on download.geofabrik.de were tripped up by the unexpected appearance of openstreetmap.org/node/100000000… (DBF field width for osm_id: 10)... fix being deployed.

👀 (EXPERIMENTAL) Vector Tiles on the Geofabrik Download Site. We’ve started making vector tile packages available on our download server at download.geofabrik.de blog.geofabrik.de/?p=589 #OpenStreetMap #OSM #OpenData #gischat

Geofabrik is hosting another Karlsruhe Hack Weekend on 30 Sept./1 Oct. More details, incl. sign up page: wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Karlsruhe… #OpenStreetMap #OSM #Karlsruhe #HackWeekend