Terraserver not responding

[ScottMorris]

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.

[ScottMorris]

Server is back up and streaming tiles fast again!

[ScottMorris]

Looks like Terraserver is still intermittently up and down.  It is currently giving a 'server busy' message, but was up earlier today.

[ScottMorris]

I'm getting tiles as of 11pm PDT.

[ScottMorris]

Still having intermittent issues as of 7/16 midday, PDT.

[ScottMorris]

Issues are definitely resolved now.  Terraserver has been serving tiles very rapidly for the past several days.

Again, thanks for the patience.

[berck]

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

[ScottMorris]

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.

[ScottMorris]

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.

[berck]

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/

[ScottMorris]

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.

[ScottMorris]

Terraserver is handing out tiles fast now, as of 10am PDT.

[jocoyn]

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.