Hi Talk-de, First apologies for my email being in English. I do not yet speak German. Feel free to translate.
I have had to blocked the tile scaping app "Mobile Atlas Creator" from mass downloading tiles from tile.openstreetmap.org, it was causing an undue strain on our limited resources and effecting the tiles being served to mappers. The app allows downloading huge areas, including heavily scaping of z17 and z18 tiles [1]. The app was responsible for between 7% and 30% of our traffic. This morning ~236 tiles per second. The app uses a faked User-Agent [2] and the block may effect some mappers in Germany. Please let me know if any problems are observed. Faking a User-Agents is absolutely unacceptable. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_Usage_Policy There has been some German discussion about this application: http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=10960&p=1 (I have not yet read the thread) 1: Most high zoom tiles tend to be have never been viewed and require rendering on demand. See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_Disk_Usage for example viewing percentages. 2: http://mobac.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mobac/trunk/MOBAC/src/main/java/mobac/program/download/UserAgent.java?r1=1411&r2=1657 Regards Grant Part of the OSM Sysadmin Team _______________________________________________ Talk-de mailing list Talk-de@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-de
