Hi Svetlana, While we do get data from OSM, we run our own tile server called Kartotherian <https://github.com/kartotherian/kartotherian>, mainly for the following reasons:
- OSM's infrastructure is fragile and has cache challenges - Their datacenter is in London, which means latency becomes an issue - OSM's rendering stack can't scale horizontally well enough to be sure they could handle our load - Their map style is not mobile friendly - We require multilingual and vector tiles, which their stack can't do (currently) - We wanted to provide nicer map styling in general Hope that helps! On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 1:06 PM, Svetlana Tkachenko <[email protected] > wrote: > Are we even building our own tiles? I thought the 'Wikimedia maps' is > just an interface to OSM. > > _______________________________________________ > discovery mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery > -- ------------------------------------ Erika Bjune Engineering Manager - Discovery Wikimedia Foundation
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