On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Kay Drangmeister <[email protected]> wrote:
> Obvious follow-up question given "default" is the most space and
> presumably also the most time consuming style: why are we duplicating
> the original osm tiles in the first place? As a backup, or for keeping
> load off the osm.org server?

The OSM tile server cannot handle the amount of traffic that Wikipedia
would generate, so yes, it's to keep load off of the OSM server.

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