Re: [Talk-GB] Elections Online website - candidate for OSM?

On 03/12/2019 09:47, Edward Bainton wrote: Hi all General Elections Online  (hosted at parliament.uk ) have got a failed page where the Google map is overlaid with "Development purposes

Re: [Talk-GB] Elections Online website - candidate for OSM?

I'll gladly help with the incorporation and structuring the finance. No good at hardware or software though, and not sure what a sysadmin does... So I take your point! I guess I wasn't really saying "someone should" but "in principle could someone?" On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 at 17:09, Richard Fairhurst

Re: [Talk-GB] Elections Online website - candidate for OSM?

Edward Bainton wrote: > Is there any reason why OSM can't set up a user co-op (for instance) > that would offer a paid tileserver service? It's an idea that's been thrown around now and then. In OSM, of course, "why can't OSM..." is usually best rephrased as "hey, let's...". First person plural.

Re: [Talk-GB] Elections Online website - candidate for OSM?

I sense this is a good idea someone is sure to have had before and nixed - or else it's not a good idea at all. Is there any reason why OSM can't set up a user co-op (for instance) that would offer a paid tileserver service? On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 at 15:58, Mark Goodge wrote: > > > On 03/12/2019

Re: [Talk-GB] Elections Online website - candidate for OSM?

On 03/12/2019 15:48, Tom Hughes wrote: The reason they're getting that error is almost certainly that they aren't paying and they're either not passing an API key at all or they're passing one that is for a different site. Most likely the site was developed before API keys were required and

Re: [Talk-GB] Elections Online website - candidate for OSM?

On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 at 10:05, Gareth L wrote: > > Potentially use > https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-put-OpenStreetMap-on-my-website Fun though Quora is, I'd rather we pointed people at something that is part of the OSM ecosystem; https://switch2osm.org/ which as created for this very

Re: [Talk-GB] Elections Online website - candidate for OSM?

On 03/12/2019 15:21, Edward Bainton wrote: Interesting. Do they pay Google for the map and tileserver use (even if they don't realise that's what they're paying for)? Or rather, since they've clearly not updated whatever agreement they had with Google for a while, /if/ the map were

Re: [Talk-GB] Elections Online website - candidate for OSM?

The reason they're getting that error is almost certainly that they aren't paying and they're either not passing an API key at all or they're passing one that is for a different site. Most likely the site was developed before API keys were required and has never been updated, but if they add a

Re: [Talk-GB] Elections Online website - candidate for OSM?

Interesting. Do they pay Google for the map and tileserver use (even if they don't realise that's what they're paying for)? Or rather, since they've clearly not updated whatever agreement they had with Google for a while, *if* the map were functioning would that mean they were paying Google? On

Re: [Talk-GB] Elections Online website - candidate for OSM?

On 03/12/2019 09:47, Edward Bainton wrote: General Elections Online  (hosted at parliament.uk ) have got a failed page where the Google map is overlaid with "Development purposes only". I

Re: [Talk-GB] Elections Online website - candidate for OSM?

Potentially use https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-put-OpenStreetMap-on-my-website Gareth On 3 Dec 2019, at 09:47, Edward Bainton wrote:  Hi all General Elections Online (hosted at

[Talk-GB] Elections Online website - candidate for OSM?

Hi all General Elections Online (hosted at parliament.uk) have got a failed page where the Google map is overlaid with "Development purposes only". I was planning to suggest they use OSM instead. Can anyone point