Serge Wroclawski wrote: > I go back to my central point: We're spending a lot of time > blocking people and explaining to people why they're blocked. > Let's find a way to turn this adversarial relationship into a > cooperative one. Do you have a suggestion on how to do this?
I do. If I read you right, you think there should be an "open to all" tileserver whose proceeds are fed back to the project. We agree that's not going to happen with the existing servers (because we don't have spare capacity) or the existing sysadmins (because we don't have spare capacity) or the existing hosting (because we can't resell the bandwidth). So you, Serge Wroclawski, should do it. Set up osmtileserver.org. Beg, borrow or steal some boxes, or simply take a punt with EC2. Recruit like-minded souls to your cause. Get a basic tileserver running. Approach one of the blocked app authors and say "hey, I think you might be interested in this". And, when you make your first profit that goes beyond what you need to reinvest, send a cheque to OSMF. It's not going to happen unless someone takes the bit between their teeth and does it, and thus far you're the person best qualified (in enthusiasm and technical knowledge) to do so. You don't need OSMF approval to run a non-profit-making service, using OSM community members and OSM community-developed tools, based on OSM data, that feeds its proceeds back to OSMF. OSMF will happily accept donations from anyone. If you really want some form of official endorsement then go talk to OSMF-US, but I don't think it's necessary. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/OSMF-to-provide-commercial-tile-service-WAS-something-else-tp6874406p6884317.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk