2009/4/15 Mohamad Ali <[email protected]> > I tried to contact '[email protected]' , no body reply..
It was only 10 hrs ago, be patient... :) Can I ask you a question , because I would like to be sure that I can use > openstreetmap for commercial use, > > I would like to put openstreetmap on my website and people will access my > site every day, > Of course I will put the credits and licenses in my JavaScript code and > link > to openstreetmap in my website user interface,.. > Is that enough or should I contact 'legal-talk'? > > Commercial use or the data and map tiles in their unmodified forms is allowed as long as you provide the required attribution... Anyone can use the data, which is the entire point of having an Open streetmap :) If you were to modify the data or tiles and then publish the results of those modifications I believe it can get more complex, so you'd need to check the license and perhaps discuss the issue on the legal-talk list if you needed to do that... If you are only looking to provide a slippy map view, and not use the data directly, you should check this page too which is specifically about using the tiles produced by the mapnik based tile server run by/for the project... http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_usage_policy The key bits that would be potentially relevant in your situation are 1) that you shouldn't bulk download tiles, i.e. don't download all the tiles in an area to host directly on your own server 2) the point on heavy users, which might not be an issue now, but, if your site is, or becomes, busy then you should look into either setting up your own local tile rendering instance, or, look at commercial providers of rendered tiles such that you are not overloading the project public tile server... d
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