<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 30 Dec 2011, at 15:02, Cartinus wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>On 12/30/2011 03:41 PM, Thomas Davie wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">we shouldn't forget that the goal of the process is to provide high<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">quality maps for people to use.<br></blockquote><br>Have you ever read the tile usage policy?<br><br>How many "iDroid" apps were blocked from using OSM's tile server and<br>told to brew their own tiles?<br><br>The OSM project doesn't have the resources to provide ready made maps<br>for everyone. If you want OSM to be able to do that, then start<br>working on a viable plan to get those resources.<br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>The tile usage policy that says roughly "use this for your personal benefit, don't scrape them" – iDroid apps don't get blocked because they let people look at the map, they get blocked because they create unnecessary load in some way (e.g. by scraping)</div><div><br></div><div>Tom Davie</div><br><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><pre>if (*ra4 != 0xffc78948) { return false; }</pre></span></div></span></div><br><div></div></div></body></html>