[OSM-talk-be] Touring Mobilis and OSM

[Jo]

2013/1/23 Glenn Plas <glenn at byte-consult.be>

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>>  I think it's cool they use OSM, even if only as a background picture.
> The copyright mention is available. All they need to do, is to cache the
> tiles in order to not overload the OSM servers.
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> Jo
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> It's a weird way to me to create a map like that but they are indeed only
> using the tiles, but they aren't caching them, quick look in firebug: tiles
> come directly from:
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> http://c.tile.openstreetmap.org/16/33595/21946.png
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> And so on.  Of course it is great they tend to prefer OSM originated
> maps.  Afaik, the requirement to use tiles directly from the openstreetmap
> servers means you either don't put a big burden on it, and if you know you
> will , they ask you to contact their administrators to talk about it.
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I guess it's the way one would use Googlemaps' tiles. Maybe we should
contact them to explain the technical details, but I'd prefer we prepare a
letter/note on the wiki and send that to them. Otherwise they might get an
incoherent cacophony of messages from all of us.

Jo
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