[OSM-talk-be] Touring Mobilis and OSM

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Le 23/01/13 13:05, Wouter Hamelinck a écrit :
> 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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Hi,

a quite similar situation recently appeared in France (but with a 
smaller company). This is described on the french list, starting here :
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-fr/2013-January/053617.html
http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/jannonce-com-utilise-OSM-td5744794.html

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