Forum:Global and regional issues/ogftopo updates
Hi, Luciano here. I have been largely absent from OGF for a long time. I do manage an occasional update on my own map work at Makaska, but I have been neglecting the topo layer. I'm here to say that I am going to try very hard to do better! So firstly, since I've been gone so long, I have no idea who has sent me files in need of updating. If you have one or more properly completed "OSM Square" (.osm / .pbf file) you may email them to me luciano @@ geofictician.net I no longer participate regularly in Discord, so reaching out to me there is probably not going to work. I will NOT take the time to validate your contour work. I will load them to the contour server, run the contours, and you get what you get! It's very easy to get absolute garbage for incomplete or badly implemented contour files. If you don't know how to draw a proper OSM Square with contours, you can download and study existing squares here: https://ogfsrtm.rent-a-planet.com/osm-squares ... My plan right now is to run the topo conversion program starting this coming Sunday, 19 July. The program takes several days to complete for large areas. So a new topo layer will actually be loaded at latest the FOLLOWING Sunday, 26 July. Happy Mapping, from That Island in Alaska. --Luciano (talk) 19:15, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
- I know I promised by today, but I ended up going in to work both yesterday and today. So I had no weekend. I got the conversions run, during the week, for those who submitted, but I need to run the actual render update. I'll try to run that in the next few days. Sorry and thank you for your patience!--Luciano (talk) 02:13, 27 July 2026 (UTC)
- And two weeks later... I finally did it. So the ogftopo render is updated. Next time I hope to not wait 6 months before running it again. Sorry this took so long. Happy mapping!--Luciano (talk) 18:57, 9 August 2026 (UTC)