Am 31.10.2011 11:29, schrieb Janko Mihelić:
The question is, can you run your own tile server for less money than
the Google's payment model. If you can, OSM is for you. If you can't,
google maps is still ok.
Well I don't want get this to political but whats wrong when pointing
people to MapQuest/Cloudmade? They offer tilehosting for free.
And yes you are right, if you want to setup your own service (cause you
aren't that small and already spend money in own servers) you can use a
own instance of our rendering stack. Sounds like you get an option, that
you never had before, right?
Matthias
Janko
2011/10/31 Matthias Meißer <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
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 <tel: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
<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
<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] <mailto:[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
<http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/%21i%21/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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