[OSM-legal-talk] use of maptiles

Schröders, Alexander Alexander.Schroeders at sensis-gmbh.de
Wed Dec 11 09:46:23 UTC 2013


Thanks Paul, Richard fort he quick response. 
I will discuss this with ou management and I think we will use a Service like Cloudemade to get our Maptiles because we dont have the resources(manpower and kowledge) to operate our own tile server.
Furthermore I will try to make something like an annual donation to OSM to support the project. 

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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Paul Norman [mailto:penorman at mac.com] 
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 11. Dezember 2013 01:13
An: 'Licensing and other legal discussions.'
Betreff: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] use of maptiles

> From: Schröders, Alexander 
> [mailto:Alexander.Schroeders at sensis-gmbh.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 12:48 AM
> To: legal-talk at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: [OSM-legal-talk] use of maptiles
> 
> Hello,
> i develop a commercial application which makes use of the tile 
> material from osm. I read "Heavy use (e.g. distributing an app that 
> uses tiles from openstreetmap.org) is forbidden without prior 
> permission from the System Administrators. See below for 
> alternatives." in http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_usage_policy.
> 
> Now i ask my self the question what is heavy use of tile materials.

First of all, I do not speak for the system administrators. They make the decisions on what to block, and how. What I write is based on my experience seeing what has caused load problems in the past 

There is not a level at which your use is guaranteed to never be considered heavy use or guaranteed not to be blocked. If that is a requirement, you need to enter into a contract with a commercial provider who will set out pricing terms. Also remember that if your use does become heavy use, you can change to a commercial service right away, because you didn't hardcode the tile.openstreetmap.org location into your app, since the terms prohibit that. 



The following are generally heavy use 

- Downloading tiles by area for later offline use 

- Consuming a noticable portion of resources (see http://munin.openstreetmap.org/openstreetmap/tile.openstreetmap/index.html
and
http://munin.openstreetmap.org/openstreetmap/render.openstreetmap/index.html
) 

- Distributing a smartphone map app targeted at consumers that uses
  tile.openstreetmap.org by default. 

- A commercial map-based website in production 

- Anything that neglects or tries to get around the usage policy
  technical requirements 

The following are typically not heavy use 

- Use on an "about" page indicating the location of a head office or
  similar location 

- Use in development 


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