
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />

<title></title>

<style type="text/css">

<!--

body{margin-left:10px;margin-right:10px;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;}

-->

</style>

</head>

<body marginleft="10" marginright="10" margintop="10" marginbottom="10">

<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Lucida Grande" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Lucida Grande;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;"><b>Serge Wroclawski <<a href="mailto:emacsen@gmail.com">emacsen@gmail.com</a>> writes:</b></font></div>

<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">You should not pull tiles directly from OSM servers to put on your</font></span></div>

<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">own. That's the kind of thing which would get you blocked.</font></span></div>

<br />

<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">What you can do is if you have a very limited number of users, you can</font></span></div>

<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">specify the OSM tileset in your openlayers config. Or you can use</font></span></div>

<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">another OSM tileset, eg the one provided by Mapquest.</font></span></div>

<br />

<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">If you want to run your own tile server (and I'm not entirely sure why</font></span></div>

<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">you'd want to do this), you should render the data yourself, but I</font></span></div>

<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">come back to why you'd want to do that. Presumably you just want to</font></span></div>

<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">track your balloon, which would just mean using openlayers and either</font></span></div>

<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">a point or a line on top of the map, so you don't need your own</font></span></div>

<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">tileserver.</font></span></div>

<br />

<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">The problem is that when we are on a chase we are out of internet contact. Even cell coverage is very spotty in many of the places so we can't use an online source for mapping data. The tiles I would pull would not be available online for other users, they would only be used for our local (in our chase van) network.</font></div>

<br />

<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Thanks,</font></div>

<br />

<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">--Geza</font></div>

<br />

<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">- Serge</font></span></div>

<br />

<br />

<br />

<br />

<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Make a gift today to support the renovation of the Sky Theater and help the Adler secure a challenge grant from The Kresge Foundation!</font></div>

<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.adlerplanetarium.org/newskytheater" target="_blank">http://www.adlerplanetarium.org/newskytheater</a></font></div>

</body>

</html>