On 12 August 2016 at 16:32, Komяpa <[email protected]> wrote: > What are the plans to scale the tile provision infrastructure?
We should be clear here - we have more than enough capacity to handle all the traffic generated by our mappers, editing software and every website run by the OSMF, local chapters and local mapping groups. Several times over. We've always allowed other people to use our spare capacity on the tileservers, but recently it's got completely out of hand. Most of the use of our tileservers has become developers looking for free maps, nothing to do with the rest of the project. Often these are commercial companies who are using our tileservers and selling their apps. Subsidising commercial companies isn't the best use of community donations and volunteer sysadmin time, when there are many alternative services (such as those run by CartoDB, Stamen, etc) that provide zero-cost map layers based on OSM data anyway. We do have plans to scale the tile infrastructure later in the year (cascading an old database server), in addition to the current process making sure that our OSMF tileservers are being mainly used for OpenStreetMap related projects. Thanks, Andy _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
