[OSM-talk] OpenMaps App Blocked By OpenStreetMap

[Mike Dupont]

you can see a large number of tiles being hosted here,
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3ASharedMap&sort=-publicdate

John Smith has been working on this, he can tell you more about it.

since I am writing to everyone, just want to let you know. we are working on
the next edition of the sfk conference in prishtina on nov 12, you are all
welcome to come.
sfk11.eventbrite.com
mike

On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Mike Dupont
<jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com>wrote:

> We asked for permission to host osm tiles and they gladly gave it
> ( "internetarchive" <info at archive.org>, )
>
> There are license restrictions creative commons and public domain
>
> you can see the hardware here.
> http://www.archive.org/web/petabox.php
>
> @frederik, I have not looked at the tiles in a while, maybe there is a bug
> in the js, but I have never had problems with files hosted there.
> Also if we are talking about hosting tiles for people to download, I think
> it is a great solution, that does not mean you have to host the tiles from
> osm.org on there for displaying.
>
> I am just saying there are options for hosting tiles out there.
> mike
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Phil Endecott <
> spam_from_osm_talk at chezphil.org> wrote:
>
>> 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<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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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