[Osmf-talk] February 27th Board Meeting

Simon Poole simon at poole.ch
Fri Feb 28 09:31:02 UTC 2020


Actually that decision (to limit tile access to the project) has already
been made, see https://twitter.com/sp8962/status/1212537229148610561

Not that I'm claiming that we should still consider that to be current,
but it is interesting from an historic pov.

Simon

Am 27.02.2020 um 21:57 schrieb Steve Coast:
> I was in the EU this week and had tile problems.
>
> The obvious thing is the board should decide and mandate OWG to not be
> the world's free tile server and block tiles to sites outside osm and
> sister projects (for example maproulette). That would solve the
> problem as I understand it, instantly, without all the money and
> people problems. This is the only real solution because more and more
> people will abuse the tile servers if we just add capacity.
>
> My understanding is that this issue has been with the board for many
> years, and I applaud Grant and everyone else for making this stuff
> work in the mean time whole the board has been focusing on more
> pressing issues.
>
> Best
>
> Steve
>
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> *From:* Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us>
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 27, 2020 8:31:29 PM
> *To:* OSMF Talk <osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org>
> *Subject:* [Osmf-talk] February 27th Board Meeting
>  
> I listened in on today's Board meeting. I'd like to suggest going
> forward that the Board get regular status reports from the Operations
> Working Group. Lately tile have been slow to load, at least in the US.
> Grant Slater has been great about communicating with the community
> when problems arise. 
>
> Since running the servers is one of the few actual responsibilities
> the Foundation has, it should be one of the key priorities. According
> to Grant, we need about 30% more capacity. OWG is also looking for
> more members to help. (I'd love to volunteer, but my background,
> telecommunications, mainly involved getting data between data centers
> and the user) Having the Board step up to insure our IT infrastructure
> is capable of meeting the needs of the user would be a welcome step.
>
> Sincerely,
> Clifford
>
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