[OSM-dev] Fwd: [WikimediaMobile] OpenStreetMap mapping temporary tile provider switch

[rupert THURNER]

fyi
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From: "Brion Vibber" <bvibber at wikimedia.org>
Date: Feb 14, 2012 1:09 AM
Subject: [WikimediaMobile] OpenStreetMap mapping temporary tile provider
switch
To: "mobile-l" <mobile-l at lists.wikimedia.org>

This morning I went ahead and changed the app to pull from MapQuest's
public OpenStreetMap-based tile servers, with appropriate tweak to the
credits line. This will put less usage on the primary OpenStreetMap public
tile servers, as we don't yet have a good idea just how much traffic we'll
end up driving.

People using nightly builds may notice that the map style is slightly
different, but should work the same and have the same content. People using
the current Android and iOS app releases will not see any difference at
this time; those continue to use Google Maps.


We're in the process of getting things set up to run our own OSM tile
servers, which we'll eventually use on Wikipedia itself as well as in the
mobile app, but I'm not sure what the schedule on that still looks like.


OSM's tile usage policy:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_usage_policy

Docs on the MapQuest tile servers:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapquest#MapQuest-hosted_map_tiles

-- brion

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