[OSM-talk] tile downloads

[Serge Wroclawski]

You should not pull tiles directly from OSM servers to put on your
own. That's the kind of thing which would get you blocked.

What you can do is if you have a very limited number of users, you can
specify the OSM tileset in your openlayers config. Or you can use
another OSM tileset, eg the one provided by Mapquest.

If you want to run your own tile server (and I'm not entirely sure why
you'd want to do this), you should render the data yourself, but I
come back to why you'd want to do that. Presumably you just want to
track your balloon, which would just mean using openlayers and either
a point or a line on top of the map, so you don't need your own
tileserver.

- Serge