tangogps : updating tiles ?

Helge Hafting helge.hafting at hist.no
Mon Aug 3 14:59:23 CEST 2009


Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 06:06:55PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
>> Go to their website - read their policy.
>> tile.openstreetmap.org is not to be used for "bulk downloads".
> 
>    URL?

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Tile_usage_policy

>> I can understand this, they probably have a bandwith problem.
> 
>    Although you'd think that if they were trying to save bandwidth, they'd
> support the If-Modified-Since HTTP header which has had wide spread server
> and client support for what, more than ten years.
> 
>> Find another repository that don't have such limitations.
> 
>    Again, URL?

That is exactly the problem! There are many online maps, but
few tile servers around.

tah.openstreetmap.org lets you download all you want,
but it does not support md5sums so you cannot use yaouh.

Helge Hafting




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