[OSM-talk] tile downloader

M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com
Wed Oct 20 17:13:49 BST 2010


2010/10/20 Rob <rob at coolbegin.com>:
> that money is well spend ;)


sure, this is more than clear.

The thing is that besides it is really easy to download tiles, you
should still not do it in a bulk way. It is against the tile usage
policy *
and "steals" resources from the mappers.

Maybe we could work around this by automatically changing the link for
the stored tiles? This would also harm "friendly" projects with small
tile-download-rates though. If it is technically possible to identify
this application they could also be filtered out.


cheers,
Martin

* http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_usage_policy



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