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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> And so on. Of course
it is great they tend to prefer OSM originated maps. Afaik,
the requirement to use tiles directly from the openstreetmap
servers means you either don't put a big burden on it, and
if you know you will , they ask you to contact their
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I guess it's the way one would use Googlemaps' tiles. Maybe we
should contact them to explain the technical details, but I'd
prefer we prepare a letter/note on the wiki and send that to
them. Otherwise they might get an incoherent cacophony of
messages from all of us.<br>
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I honestly don't see a _REAL_ issue here. First of all, they are
not 'our' servers, we should at-least agree on that first. So the
OSM mailing list as such have no direct interest nor we are involved
in any way.<br>
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Secondly, we don't know if they talked with the tileserver folks or
not, maybe they did get permission? It doesn't look ok for the
community to interfere, we should find out more information first
before slapping wrists. They do give OSM credit, which is most
important from a license point of view.<br>
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We can only point out to this link, I do assume they(=decision
takers) have read this in advance:<br>
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<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_Usage_Policy">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_Usage_Policy</a><br>
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They should cache tiles however, as that is just good practice in
general for all parties involved, end-users, admins and OSM
tileservers will all benefit.<br>
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Glenn<br>
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