OpenStreetMap Devs, After the 30th June 2012 a number of non-standard tile.openstreetmap.org URLs will no longer function.
The only valid URL format is: http://tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png Valid host aliases are: a.tile.openstreetmap.org, b.tile.openstreetmap.org, c.tile.openstreetmap.org, tile.osm.org, a.tile.osm.org, b.tile.osm.org and c.tile.osm.org Common non-standard URLs: http://tile.openstreetmap.org//{z}/{x}/{y}.png http://tile.openstreetmap.org/mapnik/{z}/{x}/{y}.png http://tile.openstreetmap.org/mapnik_tiles/{z}/{x}/{y}.png ...and many more All non-standard tile URLs will return 404 Not Found from the 30th June onwards. The vast majority of websites and apps are using the valid URL format, however you may wish to check that you are using the correct URL to access tiles. Please be aware that tile.openstreetmap.org has a usage policy: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_usage_policy Mass scraping of tiles for offline usage or similar is NOT permitted on this tile server. Technical: The invalid URLs are poisoning our caches. Storage re-writing is impractical due to the request rate. (>1000 tiles per second) Sincerely Grant Part of OpenStreetMap sysadmin team. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
