[OSM-talk] Stricter tile usage policy just introduced?

[Nick Whitelegg]

Hello Tom,

OK - I will ask for the headers.

Thanks,
Nick


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From: Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu>
Sent: 15 March 2022 11:59
To: Nick Whitelegg <nick.whitelegg at solent.ac.uk>; osm-talk <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: Re: Stricter tile usage policy just introduced?

On 15/03/2022 11:21, Nick Whitelegg via talk wrote:

> Has there been a tightening-up of the usage policy to prohibit even low
> volume use of the tile server? Reading the policy it still states:
> "Heavy use (e.g. distributing an app that uses tiles from
> openstreetmap.org) is*forbidden*without prior permission from
> theOperations Working Group
> <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.osmfoundation.org%2Fwiki%2FOperations_Working_Group&data=04%7C01%7Cnick.whitelegg%40solent.ac.uk%7C142d3b59c31f4fe3379308da067d9bc7%7Cd684e4cd491a4577bf33546478d72e3c%7C0%7C0%7C637829434259011659%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=PJuIjchzj6IAeC%2FqQZUWl3pMsQN8B%2Fb4ZFeqwpzDahc%3D&reserved=0>. See
> below for alternatives."

The policy has not changed.

There has been some additional enforcement added over
the weekend to block clients which are not complying with
the rules around identifiable user agents/referers.

It's possible something is misfiring of course but we'd
need more detail of what request headers are being sent
for the requests which fail.

Tom

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