[Osmf-talk] Turning off services and/or adding banners to protest against the EU Copyright Directive
Tom Hughes
tom at compton.nu
Mon Mar 18 10:55:23 UTC 2019
On 18/03/2019 10:29, Christoph Hormann wrote:
> On Sunday 17 March 2019, Michael Reichert wrote:
>
>> - Turn off all map tile caches in Europe or let request point to
>> nowhere (depens what is easier to implement).
>
> Not quite sure about this one. The idea of propagating the protest to
> users of osm.org tiles seems fine (it is just for a day) but just
> disabling the service without providing information why seems
> suboptimal. Delivering tiles with a message would seem the better
> solution if feasible (and would promise some nice screenshots of EU
> institutions protesting the directive...)
I think from the point of view of operations this is going to be
a non-starter - unless you're volunteering to answer thousands of
angry emails and bug reports of course.
Tom
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