[OSM-dev] Tile usage without proper identification

Komяpa me at komzpa.net
Fri Aug 12 15:32:25 UTC 2016


What are the plans to scale the tile provision infrastructure?

If servers are overloaded, do we need a donation drive to buy new one, or
are there known countries where we have bandwidth problems?

пт, 12 авг. 2016 г. в 17:00, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com>:

> On 12 August 2016 at 12:34, Maarten Deen <mdeen at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > On 2016-08-12 13:14, Paul Norman wrote:
> >>
> >> The usage policy for tile.openstreetmap.org requires that users send a
> >> valid user-agent[1], or, in the case of a web browser, a HTTP Referer.
> >> Ops are looking into automatically rate limiting clients violating this
> >> part of the policy.[2]
> >
> >
> > I have wondered about this. Does rate limiting now not occur? I have
> seen a
> > lot of times that the map in the JOSM downloadscreen gets slow if you pan
> > around a lot or use it a lot to download lots of small areas. Also the
> > mapnik overlay has this issue.
>
> There is already throttling based on other aspects of the requests to
> the tileservers (specifically, IP address). So you might be seeing
> that.
>
> > Of course this can also be due to other issues.
>
> Yep, the tileservers have been overloaded recently too. You're most
> likely to notice when you get slow or missing requests at high zoom
> levels.
>
> Thanks,
> Andy
>
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