Hi, we have experimented with hosting the tiles on archive.org there are no size limits or bandwith limits, http://ia600606.us.archive.org/31/items/SharedMap2/index.html
mike On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 3:45 PM, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen <[email protected]> wrote: > I am a user of your product, and I think you made a nice > product. I also think that now your product is mature (250000+), > it's time for you to supply your own tiles to your users. > Not only would that allow a better service to us, but also > makes it possible for us to download all zoom levels > and to create a better map, as you may render more > then one view on the world. (cycles, walking, skiing hills etc) > > OSM provides free map data but: > Free data is one, but free tile access is something else. > > The download feature of openmaps is a paid extension to > openmaps. > With the money it earns it may be easy to setup > your own servers... > > A bit of negotiations with the community might even > lead to mutual load sharing, a win-win for all of us. > > > > (Also Openmaps is not an editor, but merely a map viewer. > For us to use it as an editor an additional fee > needs to be paid. I think that is strange.) > > > > > Gert Gremmen > ----------------------------------------------------- > > Openstreetmap.nl (alias: cetest) > Before printing, think about the environment. > > > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Zsombor Szabó [mailto:[email protected]] > Verzonden: Saturday, October 08, 2011 2:40 PM > Aan: OSM Talk > Onderwerp: [OSM-talk] OpenMaps App Blocked By OpenStreetMap > > Dear OSMers, > > we, the developers of OpenMaps, wrote a blog post about OpenMaps > getting blocked by OpenStreetMap Mapnik tile servers: > http://blog.izeize.com/2011/10/openmaps-app-blocked-by-openstreetmap.html > > For convenience I pasted the whole text of the blog post below: > > Earlier this week it came to my attention that OpenMaps' access was > blocked to the OpenStreetMap "Mapnik" tile servers. > > We suspect that the reason why it was blocked is a tool named the > Download tool. The Download tool enables users to download an area of > a map from a given map tile server, even custom ones. Users were using > this tool to download map tiles from the OpenStreetMap "Mapnik" tile > servers and with this behavior they were violating the tile usage > policy of OpenStreetMap. > > We are very sorry for causing such a problem for the OpenStreetMap > project. To our defense, the tile usage policy wasn't available when > we first introduced the Download tool in OpenMaps. > > Today we submitted an updated version (v4.5.4) of OpenMaps to the App > Store and are waiting for approval from Apple. The following > modifications were made to the app: > - Download tool is still present with a clear discouraging message > that it should not be used in abusive behavior. > - Maximum of 2 download threads. > - Download disabled for 17, 18 and 19 zoom levels. > - User agent of non-bulk downloading of map tiles was changed to > "Op3nMaps(Not.Bulk.Download)/x CFNetwork/x Darwin/x" while the user > agent for bulk downloading remains unmodified (OpenMaps/x CFNetwork/x > Darwin/x). > > This way browsing and bulk downloading users can clearly be identified > on the server side and throttled or banned if necessary. > > This is our short term solution for the problem, but the long term > solution is clearly a vector based renderer. I previously alluded that > it is coming on my twitter profile. > > About OpenMaps: > OpenMaps is a powerful iOS app based on maps and web services around > OpenStreetMap. To date it was downloaded more than 250.000 times and > as of 2011.09.07 it is the 7th most popular OSM editor. > > > Best regards, > Zsombor Szabo > IZE, Ltd. > http://izeize.com > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org
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