[OSM-talk] Tile Usage Policy - Valid User Agent

[Serge Wroclawski]

Aldo,

The sys-admin team is likely asleep right now (it's pretty late in
London) but the basic thing they'd be likely to say to you is that the
OSM official tile servers are not a good choice for commercial
applications.

There are heavy usage restrictions on them because of limited resources.

A better choice for commercial users is to use a commercial tile
provider, such as Mapquest or Cloudmade. Those are only two examples.
I know other tile providers exist, but they're not coming to me at the
moment.

Or, if you want to have complete control over your application, you
can run your own tile service, and there is documentation on how to do
that, and there are commercial entities which provide OSM consulting.

- Serge