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Terraserver not responding
« on: July 11, 2009, 03:59:16 PM »
Terraserver is not responding well as of this afternoon.  We've had reports of sluggish map download since yesterday.  Most likely these are just normal network hiccups, or they are updating/changing hardware.  I'm sure the downtime will be minimal, but we'll keep you informed here.

Thanks for the patience.
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Terraserver back up
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2009, 05:57:39 PM »
Server is back up and streaming tiles fast again!
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Re: Terraserver not responding
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2009, 08:34:27 PM »
Looks like Terraserver is still intermittently up and down.  It is currently giving a 'server busy' message, but was up earlier today.
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Re: Terraserver not responding
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2009, 11:22:35 PM »
I'm getting tiles as of 11pm PDT.
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Re: Terraserver not responding
« Reply #4 on: July 16, 2009, 01:25:46 PM »
Still having intermittent issues as of 7/16 midday, PDT.
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Terraserver back up
« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2009, 01:06:13 PM »
Issues are definitely resolved now.  Terraserver has been serving tiles very rapidly for the past several days.

Again, thanks for the patience.
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Re: Terraserver not responding
« Reply #6 on: August 25, 2009, 02:57:11 PM »
Is Terraserver the only place to get free access to the USGS topo maps? In a few parts of California, the maps are in bad shape or not-existant for the 2m and 4m views. I've noticed other websites do have those USGS topos and are accurate

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Re: Terraserver not responding
« Reply #7 on: August 25, 2009, 08:58:15 PM »
Terraserver is the only one I know of with completely free access to USGS maps, and yep there are some issues especially in California.

I'll be there is a CA-only server with topos on (I've found a few servers for other states).  It'd be worth a look.
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Re: Terraserver not responding
« Reply #8 on: August 26, 2009, 07:47:24 PM »
Terraserver is responding very slowly right now, if at all.  I've been able to get a few tiles, but it's been pretty limited for the last few hours.

We'll keep monitoring it.
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Re: Terraserver not responding
« Reply #9 on: August 27, 2009, 09:28:45 AM »
Looks like UC Davis has them on line. Is there a way to redirect within TF?

http://casil.ucdavis.edu/casil/imageryBaseMapsLandCover/baseMaps/drg/

They also have a way to view them online too...

http://casil.ucdavis.edu/mapsurfer/

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Re: Terraserver not responding
« Reply #10 on: August 27, 2009, 09:34:23 AM »
Unfortunately their server doesn't appear to be WMS (an open standard for web mapping).  If you can find a WMS server it can be added to TopoFusion.
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Re: Terraserver back
« Reply #11 on: August 27, 2009, 10:02:31 AM »
Terraserver is handing out tiles fast now, as of 10am PDT.
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Re: Terraserver not responding
« Reply #12 on: August 31, 2009, 07:33:44 AM »
Went on this morning and it is SCREAMING so I am downloading 2 meter topos for my entire state

They must have done some incredible upgrade because my new computer has a 2.2 ghz intel core duo processor and 4 megs of RAM and I am maxing out the CPU and using half of my RAM because I have changed my tilesets to only download the 2meter topos and have zoomed out as far as I can to allow download and am scanning with the arrow keys to pull all the tilesets.
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