On 27 April 2011 14:18, Dermot McNally <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27 April 2011 14:08, Jaak Laineste <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Good application = >> a) is www.openstreetmap.org OR >> b) generates less than 1000 tile requests per day > > I accept the spirit of the suggestion, but 1000 tiles is probably a > bit conservative. There is a level at which (IMHO) we would prefer low > volume applications of whatever sort to use OSM instead of Google etc. > even if that comes at the cost of tile accesses on OSM servers. I > suppose my rule of thumb would be that the human eyes looking at the > third-party application would be no greedier than had we had those > same eyes on the main OSM site. > > In such cases, assuming correct attribution, such sites are providing > us with welcome publicity and we need not be mean with our tiles. >
Exactly. The iPhoneTracker app ( http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/ ) which came out last week tripled our usual traffic to around 300Mb/s. Well over 1000 tiles per second. The closing paragraph of this interview with the developers gave me the warm fuzzies: http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/04/iphone-tracking-followup.html Regards Grant _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
