[OSM-talk] OpenMaps App Blocked By OpenStreetMap

[Phil Endecott]

Hi Mike,

Mike Dupont wrote:
> Hi,
> we have experimented with hosting the tiles on archive.org
> there are no size limits or bandwith limits,
> http://ia600606.us.archive.org/31/items/SharedMap2/index.html

Can you clarify this a bit?  Have the archive.org people officially 
said, "you're welcome to store as much data as you like and to download 
as much as you want"?

In case anyone is curious, I have a couple of non-OSM map apps which I 
serve from Amazon S3 & EC2.  On average, each user downloads in the 
order of 1 GB of map tiles.  So this is affordable for any paid-for app 
- but it's unlikely to be viable for a free or ad-supported product.  I 
would expect OSM-based apps to be similar.


Regards,  Phil.