[Osmf-talk] ArcGIS Online & OSM

[Andrew Turner]

Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote:
> El 05/05/2010 16:51, Kate Chapman escribió:
>    
>> I think that the tile usage policy is a bit unclear though.  [...]
>> If I talk to ESRI and point them at it is it clear whether or not they
>> can use the tiles in the way that they are?
>>      
>
> It's easy: if you anger TomH, then you can't use the tiles that way. If
> you keep TomH happy, then you can.
>
>    
Ah, ok - so the tile should be an Angry TomH picture? :)

But honestly, it's something that really needs to be clearly conveyed. 
Developers are building truly useful and meaningful apps that make OSM 
*the* basemap to broadly use in a variety of applications. They need 
clearly conveyed expectations as well as steps to address it. Mobile 
devs aren't Geo people, or possibly even Server people, so their ability 
to understand the implications will probably be low. This shouldn't 
preclude them from using OSM, but inform them about implications and 
appropriate paths.

I understand why "only X tiles" doesn't work, but it really should be as 
clear a statement as possible along that line. The generalization "don't 
do anything which causes service to degrade and us to come looking for 
the cause" is obviously difficult to predict.

Andrew

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