[Talk-ee] Help: Tiles Usage Policy

Vitali Balandin vgb at hot.ee
Thu Oct 27 12:36:02 BST 2011


OSM RU foorumis ilmus jargmine teade:

>First: Sorry that I have to post this, but I can't write Russian  Might anybody please translate this, for the russian community?

>As some might noted, during the past two weeks, some Apps had to been blocked by the Admins, because they grabbed to much map tiles http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/!i!/diary/15046
>A few days ago, the admins created an updated statistics of HTTP Referes and HTTP User Agents, to show up, who creates the most traffic. http://grant.dev.openstreetmap.org/tmp/logs/24102011/yevaud-REF-hits-1week-10k.txt
>At this point I tried to contact the most of this portals, but noted that a lots of them are RU or other countries far east. In that cases I run into troubles to get in contact with the people.

>So here is my question: Might you please send the webmasters nice (realy no crude tone) letters, to make sure that they setup a own map server or that they change over to MapQuest?
>Normaly in my mails I point out, that OSM has very limited resources and can't provide a similar reliabel services as Google Maps does. I show that the goal of OSM is to create a free map of the world (so collecting geodata) and not to host a ready to use map that can be used by companies or any other big web player. So we have to make sure, that the limited donated server resources are used for the main goal of the project and that the few volunteers that maintain this servers have to take care that our services run fine.

>Would be nice to get any feedback (in English would be ok  )
>Matthias

Foorumi teema: http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=14192

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