You can definitely say things have happened since previous post.

Currently I am working in Kuwait, on something that will be one of the largest oil refineries when opened. Almost daily driving between this project construction site, and the corporate apartment I have been given in Salmiya, almost 100km away. Kuwait is quite good mapped, but there are construction work on several locations, so the map will need a series of updates and corrections in the near future.

Further I have also taken an active role in preparing GTFS data for bus routes in Greater Vitoria area, and together with the osm2gtfs team have assisted in improving the data model of that project, so it will not be too challenging to create a data scraper and use OSM data to create a valid GTFS data file usable in public transport routing apps.

In addition to this, my gpxupload project have received a complete rewrite, and with a little more attention will be ready for release of v2.0. The script have become 10x faster, and much easier to maintain. It will also start using configuration files, so that options that should be user configurable no longer are hardcoded into the script.

I also have a server in construction, due to the project in Kuwait, I do not have direct access to it, and several of the services are still not in place, but upon completion here I will have the server completed. The server will not be placed online, so it will only run personal services, but will allow me to crontab several tasks I run manually now, and test out a lot of stuff I want to work with, as well as freeing up a lot of disk from my notebook computer.

Planned services for the server:

• cron job for gpxupload
• OSRM for Brazil with daily updates
• PostGIS or OSM mirror
• Mapnik server with Brazil specific and Nautical Chart tiles (TMS with raster and/or vector tiles)
• TMS/WMS/WMTS with official nautical charts compatible with OSM license
• cron job to periodically update GTFS of Greater Vitoria public transport networks
• cron job to process and push my Mapillary/OSC data
• some automated/semiautomated service to create a TMS with free satellite images obtained through my Planet.com partnership.

I am looking into the posebility of a VPN solution, as I think my ISP have a firewall barrier preventing direct connection from internet, even with DynDNS solutions. Access from outside is mostly desired for myself so I can manage the server, aslo when spending long time away.