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. _______________________________________________ Maps-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l
