[OSM-talk] Getting 403-Forbidden from my app that WAS on sale onthe appstore

[IgnacioZ]

Sorry I included only Jeff on this reply, forwarding to the rest...

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 7:49 PM, IgnacioZ <zignacio at gmail.com> wrote:
> But with that model you can't have offline maps edition which I think
> is particularly useful for mobiles. There are several places you don't
> have internet available: if you like hiking, or maybe underwater, or
> you are doing some trekking on an interesting new place, or you just
> don't want to be online because it drains a lot of battery, or because
> you are travelling and don't want to pay for the costs of being
> connected.
>
> And for offline editing it is important to have the previous data
> offline also, not only the tiles.
>
>
> Ignacio.
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Jeff Spirko <spirko at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 2:56 PM, 80n <80n80n at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Form the description of True Maps at
>>> http://www.appstorehq.com/true-offline-mapslite-iphone-144457/app
>>>
>>> "- Search and Edit POI. True maps will allow you to search for specific
>>> places of interest nearby and to even add your owns totally offline. Since
>>> true maps will interact directly with openstreetmap your POI will also be
>>> available to everyone!"
>>>
>>> This seems like a bit of a dilemma.  On the one hand we want a mass market
>>> POI editing tool to capture all those long tail contributors, on the other
>>> hand that's never going to happen if we block any prospective app as soon as
>>> it starts to become popular.
>>
>> Sounds like the database maintainers would prefer that the App use
>> tiles for viewing the map and only log in to get data via the API if
>> the user wants to edit the map, like the way the Slippy Map works.
>>
>> -Jeff
>>
>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 16/03/10 09:35, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote:#
>>>>
>>>> > Then is some further discussion on the same for the API also required
>>>> > and a
>>>> > policy, perhaps similar to the format of tiles, established? There are
>>>> > data
>>>> > limits for an individual call still so presumably it's just an extension
>>>> > of
>>>> > that in words rather than an API limit?
>>>>
>>>> It's less about volume and more about what you're doing with the data
>>>> where the map api is concerned.
>>>>
>>>> I mean obviously the intent is to limit the volume of calls, but we've
>>>> tended to do that by saying that the point is that it should be used as
>>>> part of an editing cycle where you are fetching data with the intention
>>>> of changing it rather than just in order to use it in a read only way.
>>>>
>>>> Tom
>>>>
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