[OSM-talk-be] Dodentocht

[Pieter Vander Vennet]

Hey,

Well, the tileservers were slow for everyone, globally at that time. I
don't know how much pageviews that the dodentocht generated, but osm.org
should have been able to handle that just fine. OTOH, it happens quite
often that osm.org is slow or unreliable. Not a big deal for us mappers
(as long as we can edit ;p ) but not really what I'd want for a website
I do care about.

That being said, Joost said the right thing. Either contact Jonathan or
go with a commercial provider - they are quite cheap and most have a
generous free tier. Or mix a few providers.

PS: welcome to the mailing list!


Mvg,

Pieter

On 19.08.19 12:57, joost schouppe wrote:
> Another positive thing: they did attribution right :)
>
> But using the OpenStreetMap.org tiles for a big production website is
> not right. They are financed by the community for mostly internal use.
> Larger websites using them run the risk of being blocked. Maybe the
> site hit some rate limitations, or maybe it was just a bad day.
> The Belgian tile server can handle quite a bit of server load, but
> also come without guarantees. You could get in touch with Jonathan
> from geo-6, to analyse if our server can handle the load. My guess is
> it probably would!
> Of course, if you want real guarantees, you should go with a
> commercial solution or host tiles yourself (see for example
> https://switch2osm.org/providers/).
>
> Op za 17 aug. 2019 om 20:05 schreef rodeo .be <rodeo.be at gmail.com
> <mailto:rodeo.be at gmail.com>>:
>
>     Hey all,
>
>     first message to this mailing list !
>
>     Last week I supported for some friends in the Dodentocht (a 100km
>     walk around Bornem).
>     Positive thing: the organisation uses openstreetmap in their
>     follow tool: https://tracking.dodentocht.be
>     Negative thing: the maps were very slow (background not loading,
>     or slowly etc) probably due to the high local demand.
>
>     The organisers used Leaflet to load the maps. I know we have a
>     dedicated server in Belgium (tile.osm.be <http://tile.osm.be>) but
>     that server was not used.
>
>     What could we do to avoid this "slow loading" in case of future
>     events in Belgium?
>
>     Kind regards
>     Maarten
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