Hi, I've read that 4 month old thread : http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2011-April/022402.html
And looks like I'm having the same issue (a server drawning under tiles scrapers requests) >From reading the thread looks like the user-agent blocking will lead to nowhere, distributing client token/password defeates the easy to use concept of a public tile server. So am I left with rate limits ? I've try to day limit tiles download per IP (without mod_tiles because I'm using custom python rendering script) wich gives the best result so far. But it looks like I might start having problem with mobile phone company using shared IP pool to NAT their clients Are you using other tricks ? blacklists ? download patern matching ? thought for the long term ? PS: I haven't found a dedicated "rendering" mailing list so I hope it's okay to use this one -- sly (sylvain letuffe) _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
