[Osmf-talk] Question to board members

[Richard Weait]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Michal Palenik
<michal.palenik at freemap.sk> wrote:

> it's impossible to have only one map to suit everyone. imho it would be
> great to have a list of 'supported' maps/tileservers which would be
> visible on main osm.org site (apart from the current four ones).
>
> supported/featured tileservers should meet certain criteria (worldwide
> coverage, frequently updated, high availability, stable api, some history,
> bigger comunity, need for it, ...) in order to be more visible that the huge but
> invisible list(s) on wiki. or at least "specialised map of the week" on
> wiki together with image of the week. (i know, after a while there would
> be some repetition).

There are already guidelines in place to help select such "guest or
featured" tile layers.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Featured_tiles
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Strategic_working_group/New_Tile_Layer_Guidelines