Provide HTTP-referer with contact Email-Adress when using tile server of wikimediafoundation

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Provide HTTP-referer with contact Email-Adress when using tile server of wikimediafoundation #366

Closed dr0i closed 3 years ago

dr0i commented 6 years ago

The terms of use for the wikimedia tile sever can be found here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Maps_Terms_of_Use. It says i.a.:

you must provide a valid HTTP User-Agent that includes your application, version, and sufficient information to easily contact you (e.g., your email address).

dr0i commented 6 years ago

If tiles are embedded into a website, it is technically not possible to send a User-Agent. In this use cases it is not necessary to send a User-Agent due to the fact that the browser automatically sends a referer while loading the images. This referer string is sufficient as an identification.

(https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenRailwayMap/API)

So. Everything good enough then, I assume. Closing.