Richard Fairhurst [mailto:rich...@systemed.net] wrote:
Sent: 09 October 2011 21:16
To: talk@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OpenMaps App Blocked By OpenStreetMap
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However, if a bunch of OSM activists want to get sponsorship _outside_
OSMF to set up a tile-serving co-op which
Zsombor Szabó zsom...@gmail.com wrote:
About OpenMaps:
OpenMaps is a powerful iOS app based on maps and web services around
OpenStreetMap. To date it was downloaded more than 250.000 times and
as of 2011.09.07 it is the 7th most popular OSM editor.
I'm also a happy user of openmaps on iPad.
Please bear in mind that, even if we wanted to offer free tiles to every
commercial app in the world, our hosts would not permit us to do so. Nor is
it OSM's role to give OpenMaps a competitive advantage by providing it with
a free server when (for example) the OffMaps developers offer similar
Dear OSMers,
we, the developers of OpenMaps, wrote a blog post about OpenMaps
getting blocked by OpenStreetMap Mapnik tile servers:
http://blog.izeize.com/2011/10/openmaps-app-blocked-by-openstreetmap.html
For convenience I pasted the whole text of the blog post below:
Earlier this week it came
Onderwerp: [OSM-talk] OpenMaps App Blocked By OpenStreetMap
Dear OSMers,
we, the developers of OpenMaps, wrote a blog post about OpenMaps
getting blocked by OpenStreetMap Mapnik tile servers:
http://blog.izeize.com/2011/10/openmaps-app-blocked-by-openstreetmap.html
For convenience I pasted the whole
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Van: Zsombor Szabó [mailto:zsom...@gmail.com]
Verzonden: Saturday, October 08, 2011 2:40 PM
Aan: OSM Talk
Onderwerp: [OSM-talk] OpenMaps App Blocked By OpenStreetMap
Dear OSMers,
we, the developers of OpenMaps, wrote a blog post about OpenMaps
getting blocked by OpenStreetMap Mapnik tile
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Op 08-10-11 14:39, Zsombor Szabó schreef:
This is our short term solution for the problem, but the long term
solution is clearly a vector based renderer. I previously alluded
that it is coming on my twitter profile.
The long term solution is
Thanks for the update Zsombor!
Well for all of you that didn't noticed the problem with our servers,
you might check out the following discussions:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Blocked_applications
http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=194881
Onderwerp: [OSM-talk] OpenMaps App Blocked By OpenStreetMap
Dear OSMers,
we, the developers of OpenMaps, wrote a blog post about OpenMaps
getting blocked by OpenStreetMap Mapnik tile servers:
http://blog.izeize.com/2011/10/openmaps-app-blocked-by-openstreetmap.html
For convenience I pasted
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Stefan de Konink ste...@konink.de wrote:
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Op 08-10-11 14:39, Zsombor Szabó schreef:
This is our short term solution for the problem, but the long termriv
solution is clearly a vector based renderer. I previously
Zsombor Szabó wrote:
This way browsing and bulk downloading users can clearly be
identified on the server side and throttled or banned if necessary.
It's good that you're making changes, but there's two misapprehensions that
need clearing up.
Firstly, our sysadmins are unpaid volunteers who
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote:
OSM data is a non-rivalrous good. That is your use does not detract
from anyone else's use.
The tile server, though, is a rivalrous good. Use of the tile server
costs OSM resources, and detracts from other users.
it
Am 08.10.2011 16:06, schrieb Matthias Meisser:
So we might remove the warnings from the corresponding wiki pages, do
we? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Blocked_applications bye
Matthias (!i!)
I think we should not remove the warnings, but add a note to updated
versions that are found to
Hi,
On 10/08/2011 07:25 PM, Mike Dupont wrote:
The tile server, though, is a rivalrous good. Use of the tile server
costs OSM resources, and detracts from other users.
it is not any more, we have free hosting for the terabytes. archive.org
http://archive.org
This might solve your
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
Hi,
On 10/08/2011 07:25 PM, Mike Dupont wrote:
The tile server, though, is a rivalrous good. Use of the tile server
costs OSM resources, and detracts from other users.
it is not any more, we have free hosting
Hi,
On 10/08/2011 08:19 PM, Mike Dupont wrote:
This might solve your distribution issue, but ready rendered tiles
to not fall from the sky.
My distribution? I am suggesting that OSM use this.
Then:
This might solve our distribution issue, but ready rendered tiles do
not fall from
Hi Mike,
Mike Dupont wrote:
Hi,
we have experimented with hosting the tiles on archive.org
there are no size limits or bandwith limits,
http://ia600606.us.archive.org/31/items/SharedMap2/index.html
Can you clarify this a bit? Have the archive.org people officially
said, you're welcome to
We asked for permission to host osm tiles and they gladly gave it
( internetarchive i...@archive.org, )
There are license restrictions creative commons and public domain
you can see the hardware here.
http://www.archive.org/web/petabox.php
@frederik, I have not looked at the tiles in a while,
you can see a large number of tiles being hosted here,
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3ASharedMapsort=-publicdate
John Smith has been working on this, he can tell you more about it.
since I am writing to everyone, just want to let you know. we are working on
the next edition
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