I have mentioned the fact many times that archive.org has allowed for tile hosting, i...@archive.org is the address for asking permission. mike
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Stefan de Konink <ste...@konink.de> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > The basic outline; > > - - People seem to love using tile.openstreetmap.org for any of their apps > - - Apps get blocked for various reasons, contributing back is difficult > - - OpenStreetMap wants to be the leading provider of such data > > > I would propose a small working group to outline what should happen to > facilitate the creation of a Content Delivery Network (CDN) serving > the basic tiles, and allow easy contribution this network. This should > produce a prototype of at least 3 servers. > > > Questions such as: quality, update frequency, traffic shaping, > geographical balancing and high availability could be part of this > working group. > > > I would like to invite anyone to participate, especially: > - people that already have their own tileservers running, and/or > are currently balancing traffic; > - business folks: what could be a motivation and what can be a > cutback in for example attribution, > - users of for example openlayers, etc. what kind of caching can > be applied, and if this should be configurable client side > > > Participation can announced in private or on list. > > > Stefan > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEAREKAAYFAk798H0ACgkQYH1+F2Rqwn2I9ACeJV+vFfBvI4CaTET0BqjuuX1s > G78AnRv6+Qh7MkIrN1DQ6fQ34p1j0uuS > =+WNS > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > dev@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev