[OSM-talk] Terms of use for OSM tiles and API?
Tom Hughes
tom at compton.nu
Tue Sep 29 12:41:08 BST 2009
On 29/09/09 12:32, Frankie Roberto wrote:
> This is related to a question in the Flickr thread about whether OSM
> should provide services as well as data, and is something I've been
> meaning to ask for a while:
>
> Are there any "terms of use" for either the XML API or the
> Mapnik/Osmarender map tiles?
Mostly "don't take the piss" and "if I have to come looking for the
person that has caused the site to grind to a halt then they're going to
get themselves banned".
> eg if someone wants to embed the our Mapnik tiles on their website (eg
> using OpenLayers), can they do so? Does it depend on
> commercial/non-commercial? Bandwidth required?
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_usage_policy
Tom
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