[OSM-dev] Paging the tile server admins

[Grant Slater]

On 27 April 2011 14:18, Dermot McNally <dermotm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 27 April 2011 14:08, Jaak Laineste <jaak.laineste at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Good application =
>> a) is www.openstreetmap.org OR
>> b) generates less than 1000 tile requests per day
>
> I accept the spirit of the suggestion, but 1000 tiles is probably a
> bit conservative. There is a level at which (IMHO) we would prefer low
> volume applications of whatever sort to use OSM instead of Google etc.
> even if that comes at the cost of tile accesses on OSM servers. I
> suppose my rule of thumb would be that the human eyes looking at the
> third-party application would be no greedier than had we had those
> same eyes on the main OSM site.
>
> In such cases, assuming correct attribution, such sites are providing
> us with welcome publicity and we need not be mean with our tiles.
>

Exactly.
The iPhoneTracker app ( http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/ )
which came out last week tripled our usual traffic to around 300Mb/s.
Well over 1000 tiles per second.

The closing paragraph of this interview with the developers gave me
the warm fuzzies:
http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/04/iphone-tracking-followup.html

Regards
 Grant