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I was in the EU this week and had tile problems.<br>
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The obvious thing is the board should decide and mandate OWG to not be the world's free tile server and block tiles to sites outside osm and sister projects (for example maproulette). That would solve the problem as I understand it, instantly, without all the
money and people problems. This is the only real solution because more and more people will abuse the tile servers if we just add capacity.<br>
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My understanding is that this issue has been with the board for many years, and I applaud Grant and everyone else for making this stuff work in the mean time whole the board has been focusing on more pressing issues.<br>
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Best<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Clifford Snow <clifford@snowandsnow.us><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 27, 2020 8:31:29 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> OSMF Talk <osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Osmf-talk] February 27th Board Meeting</font>
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<div dir="ltr">I listened in on today's Board meeting. I'd like to suggest going forward that the Board get regular status reports from the Operations Working Group. Lately tile have been slow to load, at least in the US. Grant Slater has been great about communicating
with the community when problems arise.
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<div>Since running the servers is one of the few actual responsibilities the Foundation has, it should be one of the key priorities. According to Grant, we need about 30% more capacity. OWG is also looking for more members to help. (I'd love to volunteer, but
my background, telecommunications, mainly involved getting data between data centers and the user) Having the Board step up to insure our IT infrastructure is capable of meeting the needs of the user would be a welcome step.</div>
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<div>Sincerely,</div>
<div>Clifford</div>
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