Yes I guess this trend will come and I realy want to slow down your
action Stefan :)
But on the other side we had problems with servers last weeks, so why
not pointing to the Tile usage policy in the same way? To me the "OSM is
a free project, but the server ressources are not" is quiet easy to
understand for everyone and this might prevent new devs who would change
over to OSM (to fast), from killing the servers. We already had the
case, that a few single Apps alone blocked the tile queue and the wiki
and of course this situation is bad for the Apps as well.
But this is just my personal idea. Anyway its always good to promote OSM :)
bye
Matthias
Am 31.10.2011 01:06, schrieb Stefan Keller:
Hi
I was alerted by a large national search company telling me that they
are using G* Maps but now they are glad to know that there exists OSM
as an alternative (to what has tbd.).
And there are also blogs saying that smaller developers will be hit
too, especially when their innovative website becomes more well-known:
See this article:
http://www.netmagazine.com/news/devs-respond-google-maps-api-limits-111510
So my thought was too to make a press release - but without bashing G*
and without referring to the restrictions (see e.g. here
http://code.google.com/intl/uk-UK/apis/maps/faq.html#tos_pricing ). I
would rather remind that OSM is "free" (under the license terms) and
that the OSM data and tools are there to be used in own websites.
Yours, S.
Am 30. Oktober 2011 19:11 schrieb Matthias Meißer<[email protected]>:
As I pointed out in my blog post, I would be happy for everbody that takes a
review in the data and it's processing ;)
But yes I understand thats not good stuff for a press relase. But on the
other hand it makes no sense to me to enforce a PR just for glee. As I noted
in some Google article it's not that clear how consumers are affected, cause
do they make use of the API?
Matthias
Am 30.10.2011 14:00, schrieb Phil Endecott:
Matthias Mei?er wrote:
Well, another aspect for a press release might be, that OSM has
limited resources as well. Maybe this visualisation and analysis of
the tile usage by Apps would be a good starting point:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/!i!/diary/15190
Friends, please don't do anything at all, let alone a press release,
based on Matthias' data. It might not be as reliable as he hoped.
Regards, Phil.
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