Mikel, Mikel Maron wrote:
Since the export function is linked from the main site, imo we should consider it a core service that should be available at some service level. Personally, we use this feature often through Map Kibera.
The Mapnik image export works by custom rendering your image, whereas the Osmarender image export, and also anything you do via openstreetmap.gryph.de/bigmap.cgi, works by stitching together individual tiles. If any of these work for you then they will be more reliable than the image export (the bigmap service will let you create a Perl script which you can then run at any time to update the image).
Generally, "scraping" tiles is frowned upon, but downloading 20 or 30 pre-rendered tiles will certainly put less load on the tile server than requesting a custom render.
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