[OSM-talk-be] Touring Mobilis and OSM

[Wouter Hamelinck]

I also fail to see any issue with what they are doing. If they violate
the tile usage policy, they will get the "access blocked" message
instead of maps. If they would not be aware of the policy now (I don't
know, just speculating), they will be at that moment. And then it's
their call how they handle it.
Let the people managing the servers decide what is acceptable use and
what is overuse and block users if needed. No need for us to jump in
every time someone shows an OSM map on his website.

wouter

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Glenn Plas <glenn at byte-consult.be> wrote:
>
>> 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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