42 Is completely independable

[Ostap]

Good news everyone

Starting from today - 42 forum is completely undependable from anybody
No trackers, no remote sources, no nada

Today I've replaced last part of the forum that was using third party services - Maps
From now on - 42Amsterdam has it own maps server !!

Possibilities of having own map server are endless

Styling: ...having America painted black ...simple as american pie
Renaming: ...having Poland named as Kabanosiland ...no problemo at all !!

[Ostap]

First - I'll try to give Alaska back to Russia
Just for fun

[Marco]

Good news everyone

Starting from today - 42 forum is completely undependable from anybody
No trackers, no remote sources, no nada

Today I've replaced last part of the forum that was using third party services - Maps
From now on - 42Amsterdam has it own maps server !!

Possibilities of having own map server are endless

Styling: ...having America painted black ...simple as american pie
Renaming: ...having Poland named as Kabanosiland ...no problemo at all !!

So now this is yours 100%... right?

First - I'll try to give Alaska back to Russia
Just for fun

What? Sounds like playing Europa Universalis 2 or 3...
If Alaska goes back to Russia, then it would be cool to:
- Sardinia independent from Italy or back to Spain again;
- Corsica independent from France;
- Catalonia and Basque Country as sovereign states (they are divided between France and Spain)...
- Northern Ireland to EIRE and Scotland independent from England.... LOL you could use different (transparent) flags or colors for each land! I'm joking, though.

[Ostap]

So now this is yours 100%... right?

It always was ...but now - there are no dependencies - everything is served from 42Amsterdam servers (3 of them at the moment)

As well - what do you count "Yours" ? ...
Forum is from "VBuletain" ... i paid for it ...and cannibalized the code in order to integrate it with my system
Maps - are open source (as for now...) ...i've created my own server based on Database of world tiles... using mapbox-gl library available on github

"Mine" ...is a very wide definition now days...(unless you've designed and created your self)



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What? Sounds like playing Europa Universalis 2 or 3...
If Alaska goes back to Russia, then it would be cool to:
- Sardinia independent from Italy or back to Spain again;
- Corsica independent from France;
- Catalonia and Basque Country as sovereign states (they are divided between France and Spain)...
- Northern Ireland to EIRE and Scotland independent from England.... LOL you could use different (transparent) flags or colors for each land! I'm joking, though.

I've the Database - I've got the pawa !!!

[Ostap]

Good news everyone

Since I've got my own maps server
I've spent some time to convert and optimize the data I had
So...now there is also a distribution version of map server.

It's still huuuuuuge ...!! ...smaller
but still huge !!

Zipped archive is 33Gb size - unzipped will be 70GB
This is not for casual user !!! - buuuut...
It is a portable version of world maps -
that does not require internet to be plugged-in ...
any prepper would appreciate it !!!

Requirements:

1 - Patience... you'll need it !!!
2 - ~160Gb free disk space (file/unzip/import ...all will add-up to that) -
(That's temporary ofcoz...final size after import is ~40Gb)
3 - Apache server installed
4 - MySQL server installed
5 - Enough coffee/beer to go through unzip/import procedure

Unzipping - will take some time...
Importing DB - will take double that time
but once you through ...- you got your own map server !!!

If you still interested - download it here

[Rakanishu]

What is it about? I don't really understand what it is

Btw can you approve the files I sent in the database?

[Ostap]

What is it about? I don't really understand what it is

World map server ....for those who hosts a website ....and need a map ....
(same one as on the front page)

Btw can you approve the files I sent in the database?

I'll try to review all uploads next week ...