Color Aerial 0.003 not downloading?

[jeremy_c]

It seems that Color Aerial 0.003 is not downloading? I have tried via the Batch Download Tool and also by zooming in and panning the map. Batch Download tool always reports "Error downloading from current server. Retrying in 60 seconds." When using the map pan feature, it downloads a few tiles then reports it couldn't download a tile and disables Internet Downloads. Re-enabling it, I get another tile or two before it disables.

All other map sets I have attempted to download have worked fine. These include Topo *, Aerial 1M-64M, LandSat *, MyTopo, Open Street Maps and Mapquest OSM.

Any thoughts on Color Aerial 0.003?

Jeremy

[ScottMorris]

Hi,

It looks like Color 0.003 is downloading OK for me.  Sometimes the server is a little finicky, and it may have just been that.

Let us know if it is behaving any better this morning -- it's looking good to me.

Thanks.

[jeremy_c]

Still seems to occur, on my laptop and desktop, both are Win7. Color 0.015 and up always download in an instant, Color 0.003 always gives me troubles, even when downloading by panning around.

[jeremy_c]

Oh, I should mention that on both systems, Desktop and Laptop, when doing a batch download and the error occurs "Error downloading from current server. Retrying in 60 seconds." TopoFusion will consume 100% of one core. Memory does not change. I cannot use the Cancel button. The only way I have been able to using TopoFusion again is to kill it via the task manager and reload.

[ScottMorris]

Jeremy,

That last problem with the batch download is troubling.  I'll do some testing on that.

Can you give me a rough coordinate for where you are looking/downloading?  It must be area specific since all is working well for me in Colorado.

Thanks.

[jeremy_c]

I just set it up to follow the Appalachian Trail from start to finish. It was doing really well but started failing at 1500 miles into it or so. This is the best it has ever done, far, far better than when I reported the problem, so maybe it's just server load.

A place I am waiting on right now is 43 12' 4.70" N x 67 19' 9.40" W

When in pan mode, it does not hang. Only in batch download. I do have many tiles now that say "Unable to display map for this location and tileset. The map may not exist or you may need to pan the map to this UTM zone. (Topo/Aerial maps cannot be displayed across UTM zones).

[ScottMorris]

Those coordinates are in the ocean... so that might be the problem. 

Just joking.  I tried some downloading in Maine and such and it seemed to work ok.  I think that as you suspected they may have some throttling in place to prevent massive downloads.  TF should *not* floor the CPU or anything like that, though, but definitely no guarantees that you can download tiles forever from public servers.

You may try the new "open aerial" tilesets as an alternate.  In many cases they serve the exact same images as the Color tileset.

Hope that helps.