[Talk-GB] Dorset County Council maps now offer OSM Mapnik as default base layer

Jonathan Bennett openstreetmap at jonno.cix.co.uk
Thu Dec 22 11:09:26 GMT 2011


On 19/12/2011 00:31, Nick Austin wrote:
> 1) Judging by the status message that Firefox produces they are using
> the OSM tile server. Is that allowed?

Yes, and it won't cause a problem. Browser-based applications like this 
only request a small number of tiles at a time for the area the user is 
viewing.

The problem occurs when an application starts bulk downloading tiles for 
use offline, particularly at high zoom levels.



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