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Hello Tom,</div>
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OK - I will ask for the headers.</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Tom Hughes <tom@compton.nu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 15 March 2022 11:59<br>
<b>To:</b> Nick Whitelegg <nick.whitelegg@solent.ac.uk>; osm-talk <talk@openstreetmap.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Stricter tile usage policy just introduced?</font>
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<div class="PlainText">On 15/03/2022 11:21, Nick Whitelegg via talk wrote:<br>
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> Has there been a tightening-up of the usage policy to prohibit even low <br>
> volume use of the tile server? Reading the policy it still states: <br>
> "Heavy use (e.g. distributing an app that uses tiles from <br>
> openstreetmap.org) is*forbidden*without prior permission from <br>
> theOperations Working Group <br>
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> below for alternatives."<br>
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The policy has not changed.<br>
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There has been some additional enforcement added over<br>
the weekend to block clients which are not complying with<br>
the rules around identifiable user agents/referers.<br>
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It's possible something is misfiring of course but we'd<br>
need more detail of what request headers are being sent<br>
for the requests which fail.<br>
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Tom<br>
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-- <br>
Tom Hughes (tom@compton.nu)<br>
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