Hi Grant Re: Locus, indeed. I understand the blocking. My solution for it was their vector maps for SA (70megs). I am way more interested in mapping/editing though, so i use locus for recording/poi's.
The server, sorry for not being detailed. No, unfortunately not in S.A, 300GB on a server here would cost as much as a house. They(servers) are hosted in London, but with great latency to s.Africa I would still not mind doing what I can, but will have a look at the mapquest tiles. Marlon On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Grant Slater <[email protected]>wrote: > On 12 April 2012 13:48, Vesuvius <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi folks > > > > Just had a few brain splurts. > > I have a server or two, with 300 GB or so of traffic per month... > > Based in South Africa? 300 GB local only? > > I am part of the OpenStreetMap sysadmin team and responsible for the > caching setup for tile.openstreetmap.org > tile.openstreetmap.org (+ aliases) currently serves around 1950GB per > day (no typo), but a South Africa only cache would much more > reasonable. > > I'd love to see a SA cache. > > > > > I do know the tile limits are there for good reasons, processing is > > expensive, which is why some of my favourite applications (Locus Pro) is > > suffering/blocked. > > > > Locus Pro is a great application, but the amount of tiles it scrapes > is unreasonable, specially when multiplied by 1000s of users. An > alternative would be the MapQuest Open tiles. The MapQuest Open tiles > (OpenStreetMap data) do not have any scraping restrictions as far as I > know. > > PS: http://ftp.up.ac.za/mirrors/openstreetmap/ is a great local mirror > of the OSM XML data exports. > > Regards > Grant >
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