[OSM-talk] tile downloads

Geza Gyuk ggyuk at adlerplanetarium.org
Thu Jun 9 20:24:31 BST 2011


Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com> writes:
>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.

The problem is that when we are on a chase we are out of internet contact. Even cell coverage is very spotty in many of the places so we can't use an online source for mapping data. The tiles I would pull would not be available online for other users,
they would only be used for our local (in our chase van) network.

Thanks,

--Geza
>
>- Serge
>



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