On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Igor Brejc <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 6:33 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> 2011/5/5 Grant Slater <[email protected]>: >> >> What about changing the tile urls frequently? This could be automated >> and synchronized with the start page and would stop those apps quite >> fast (at least until they start making the urls in their app dynamic >> and synchronize as well). > > > That would punish everyone, even those apps that adhere to the policy. I see > no reason to prevent access to an app which just mimics the browser and > shows a limited map area, uses throttling and caches those tiles for more > than a week. > Besides, this would not really help OSM spread its word. I'm sure there are > better ways of dealing with offenders.
We could encourage all 3rd party websites and apps to get their tiles from commercial providers. As I explained in a previous post, placing the occasional advertisement on a map can have significant economic benefits. I see a lot of similarities between serving tiles and hosting Internet sites: Some of them are add supported (Geocities). Some of them are little sole proprietor operations being run a garage. Some focus on reliability (pair) and others on scalability / variety / flexibility (Amazon). _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
