[OSM-talk-be] Touring Mobilis and OSM

[Glenn Plas]

>     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.
>
>
> 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.

I honestly don't see a _REAL_ issue here.  First of all, they are not 
'our' servers, we should at-least agree on that first.  So the OSM 
mailing list as such have no direct interest nor we are involved in any way.

Secondly, we don't know if they talked with the tileserver folks or not, 
maybe they did get permission?  It doesn't look ok  for the community to 
interfere, we should find out more information first before slapping 
wrists.   They do give OSM credit, which is most important from a 
license point of view.

We can only point out to this link, I do assume they(=decision takers) 
have read this in advance:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_Usage_Policy

They should cache tiles however, as that is just good practice in 
general for all parties involved, end-users, admins and OSM tileservers 
will all benefit.

Glenn



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