The tile server hosted by OpenStreetMap France behind the humanitarian base map is currently down.
We’re redirecting tile requests on OSM default tiles till we get is back.
Our hardware is really getting very old…
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New osm2pgsql database has been setup on another server.
Next step: reinstall the rendering stack/style.
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Awesome ! Can’t wait to see it back on osm.org !
Now it is preloading tile cache with low zooms and the service should be back online quite soon.
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When it is, I’d definitely post a link for donations** so the posters desperate for it to return can thank you personally…
** or a charitable one if you prefer
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Like Faites un don à OpenStreetMap France | OpenStreetMap France ?
I sent a mail to HOT board some time ago to have some support to replace this server… never got an answer.
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Can’t wait 
OSM-FR server is back serving humanitarian tiles since a couple of minutes :
A lot of higher zoom tiles need to be generated as only zoom 0 to 12 have been pre-generated, so some slow display may occur in the next days.
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As the service is back online, I’ve checked the current use of this base layer.
I think we will have to take actions for abusive uses which can be categorized by:
- lack of proper attribution (quite common)
- abusive use by commercial services
- abusive use by private services (access restricted by login/password)
We were quite permissive as long as attribution was there, thinking the use of OSM based maps was promoting OSM. I think this time is over.
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Thank you
This Humanitarian Style was made in the Limonade HOT Haiti project in 2013. Did HOT maintained the style in any way since then, or is this all done by the OSM-fr community ? It seems that most of the efforts since 2013 have been done by OSM-fr with the Tile service.
We got some donation more than 10 years ago., that’s all to my knowledge.
That’s 100% right.
The stylesheet itself has not been touched for a couple of years now and would also benefit from some optimizations.
The tile server hardware (a Dell R610, a donation from a french ISP “free”) has been upgraded a couple of times since 2012, from an original 64GB RAM + 6x1TB HDD to 192GB + 2x4TB NVMe SSD, but it is now having CPU troubles causing kernel panic.
I just removed it yesterday from the datacenter as it is failing on boot and it is now at my home to see if I can fix that or just reuse the good parts like the SSDs in better current hardware.
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Would be great if highway labels were included in it
You can:
- open an issue on: https://github.com/hotosm/HDM-CartoCSS/issues
- do the change in the style sheet and propose a pull-request on the same repo
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Thank you so much , how do you do the change in style sheet ? I’m new to GitHub