-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 10:10:11AM -0400, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote: > From http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_usage_policy > > > > > Bulk Downloading > > > >Bulk downloading is *strongly discouraged*. Do not download tiles > ><http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tiles> unnecessarily. > > > >In particular, downloading significant areas of tiles at zoom levels 17 > >and higher for offline or later usage is *forbidden* without prior > >consultation with a System Administrator > ><http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/System_Administrators>. These tiles > >are generally not available (cached) on the server in advance, and have to > >be rendered specifically for those requests, putting an unjustified burden > >on the available resources. > > > >To avoid having your access blocked, please discuss your requirement with > >system administrators > ><http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/System_Administrators> either via > >their wiki pages or on the IRC channel > ><http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/IRC> prior to starting. > > > You really don't want every xastir user to start getting the following image > instead of map tiles.
Good point. Of course we might be able to host the data separately for our users. I'm thinking of a model similar to what OSMAND does. - --Eric -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQGcBAEBCgAGBQJUHDu8AAoJEB/kgVGp2CYvSzwL/RaUpsPuVklbNQCQGGCkbzKo s/lBHYpQj5AIkPC8SS5OgwwKxBDIarEMtLuKaQLvqajq/1FnLi7avz0U+UN4GvGJ /YtV65VIDXUUaMRrYTNJ0qp9unLHpKu0yrBRn3pZTSbspcY8GYcSC1gn7wqaMrIr 8RCMLxAucm3FbFBQ+QUbw0M+SzR8qpsNTo5KnwKMXsgHf4JouutxcjI9lAAOMfqa GfDSqii227Q1/uk3xgFg+s0uMQuGHe5TVTEAfpj96x+PC/xfc4zDyUQgJ4W9UQYj A/1M8bJK3/pp+ua1OIx9sv74YwAPpVWhp3jQ3VXrSvhVEi96/quGiIy0HEBeLdJX 77aygfIiaRIlWtzJBqOYVNfnPwzBbW9tz+S6eFCXKXb2fqCyW67pIVz1tuV/Yg3s 8SGUH3MJ0+x8+GeTSiz1lN5PsKgy1Tzm/qis8Bd3L9CzNCGGfonTtpRVm0mYjgTe 4U38dZjBJ0PTRBWP5d+nZ8T+XMxS62xIqUNeP2HtyQ== =jjOo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
