[OSGeo Oceania] request from OpenStreetMap.org

[George Moon]

Hi all,

Just to follow up on this request, I forwarded it on to some people at
my workplace, and we're delighted to be able to donate hosting resource
to OpenStreetMap.org through provisioning of a tile server on the
Catalyst Cloud in Hamilton, New Zealand [1].

It's been up and running for a few weeks now, and is serving tiles to
Australia and the wider pacific region [2].

Cheers,


George


[1] https://hardware.openstreetmap.org/servers/waima.openstreetmap.org/
[2] https://dns.openstreetmap.org/tile.openstreetmap.org.html


George Moon
Project Manager (South Island)

Catalyst IT - Open Source Technologists
www.catalyst.net.nz

On 26/02/19 1:42 PM, adam steer wrote:
> Hi Ross, All
> 
> I’ve put OSM and AARnet in touch with each other, I hope they talk and
> report back :D
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Adam
> 
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 at 11:32, Ross Johnson <rossgo at hotmail.com
> <mailto:rossgo at hotmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     FYI:
> 
> 
>       Can you help make OpenStreetMap.org faster in Brazil, or
>       Australia/New Zealand?
> 
>     /CDN/
>     <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network>/ of //tile
>     delivery caching servers/
>     <http://dns.openstreetmap.org/tile.openstreetmap.org.html>/./
> 
>     A big use of the OpenStreetMap data is the web map on
>     OpenStreetMap.org. Along with our hard working team of volunteer
>     sysadmins who keep it going, we are helped by many donated tile
>     cache servers around the world, which speed up the map in various
>     regions.
>     We are always open to more servers, but the Operations Working Group
>     is currently looking for servers in Brazil, and Australia/New
>     Zealand. If you or your organisation would like to donate a cache
>     server and hosting, we’re ideally looking for a physical server or
>     powerful VM with 8GB+ RAM and at least 146GB of storage. Read more
>     details. <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Servers/Tile_CDN>
> 
>     Please email operations at osmfoundation.org
>     <mailto:operations at osmfoundation.org> if you are interested.
> 
>     Our peak Brazil traffic is currently around 65 Mbps. Our peak
>     Australian and New Zealand traffic is currently around 20 Mbps. See
>     the full country breakdown in bits per second.
>     <https://git.openstreetmap.org/dns.git/blob/HEAD:/bandwidth/tile.openstreetmap.yml>
> 
>     Some more information:
> 
>       * Brazil has the 10th highest traffic and is the largest country
>         without a cache in it or nearby.
>       * Worldwide peak traffic is 2300 Mbps.
>       * Antarctica and Australia are the two continents we do not have
>         caches on.
> 
>     We fully manage the software and operating system. All config is
>     managed via our chef recipes
>     <https://github.com/openstreetmap/chef>. We also run a local
>     firewall on each server. If physical hardware, we monitor using it
>     SMART, hp-health, etc and report any hardware issues back to the
>     hosting organisation.
> 
>     Will you help us and join the people and organisations that support
>     OpenStreetMap? Thank you <https://hardware.openstreetmap.org/thanks/>!
> 
>     /The OpenStreetMap Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation,
>     formed in the UK to support the OpenStreetMap Project. It is
>     dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of
>     free geospatial data for anyone to use and share. The OpenStreetMap
>     Foundation owns and maintains the infrastructure of the
>     OpenStreetMap project. Volunteers, like the indefatigable team of
>     server administrators, keep all of this hardware working. /
> 
>     /OpenStreetMap tiles are free for everyone to use, but should be
>     used with moderation
>     <https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/tiles/>. If you are a
>     high traffic site you should look at switch2osm.org
>     <https://switch2osm.org/> to find out how to use the data and keep
>     the tiles available for everyone. /
> 
>     /If you can’t donate server hosting, you can always make a financial
>     donation to the OSMF <https://donate.openstreetmap.org/>./
> 
> 
> 
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