> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:33:02 +0100
> From: matthias.meis...@uni-rostock.de
> To: viking-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Viking-devel] OpenStreetMap Tile usage policy
>
> Am 31.10.2011 19:27, schrieb Greg Troxel:
>
> > Then, it would make sense to see about other tile sources, but I don't
> > think we should delay a new release w/o mapnik by default.
> Well even if I understand your interest Greg, I wouldn't do it that fast.
Agreed.
> Currently the OSM servers aren't on fire, so we all have the time to
> think before we do something. My personal opinion is, that with simply
> dropping OSM Mapnik support, the users will get angry, cause they feel
> that they lost something useful. We don't want to prevent them to make
> use of OSM, so (my opinion) the best would be to simply change the tiles
> provider e.g. to MapQuest and to make the original OSM tiles available
> to OSM Mappers (that need all details).
>
> What you say?
It is very possible to make MapQuest the default tile source (albeit needs
adding MapQuest in code not just the configurable xml), however there seems
little point in removing OSM server sources as an easy selectable option -
after all Viking is not that high up on the offenders list ;)
Even with a new release, as a Desktop program it will not see that much
immediate end user adoption:
. Until Linux distribution start shipping it and users upgrade.
. Until there is a Windows version and users upgrade
Also note that, even with new default values of preferences and map types will
not effect existing user's preferences or map usage from saved .vik files.
> bye
> Matthias
> >
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