On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Tom Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > On 29/09/09 12:32, Frankie Roberto wrote: > >> This is related to a question in the Flickr thread about whether OSM >> should provide services as well as data, and is something I've been >> meaning to ask for a while: >> >> Are there any "terms of use" for either the XML API or the >> Mapnik/Osmarender map tiles? > > Mostly "don't take the piss" and "if I have to come looking for the > person that has caused the site to grind to a halt then they're going to > get themselves banned". > >> eg if someone wants to embed the our Mapnik tiles on their website (eg >> using OpenLayers), can they do so? Does it depend on >> commercial/non-commercial? Bandwidth required? > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_usage_policy
For interest's sake, I've also got a usage policy at http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/shine/third-party-use-of-tiles/ - I expect that it's quite similar in positioning to OSMFs, since we're dealing with similar issues. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
