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downloader killing OSM infrastructure #275

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
The mass-downloading of tiles is killing the infrastructure of Openstreetmap. 
As the project is running on donations it's not possible to provide the 
infrastructure for mass-downloading.

Please replace the download URL in openStreetMaps.py to point it to one of the 
services that happily offer OSM tiles for download.

I suggest to switch to the Mapquest servers. Instructions listed here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MapQuest#Tile_URLs

Mainly it's replacing the URL to look like this:
http://otile1.mqcdn.com/tiles/1.0.0/osm/8/126/87.png

Additional benefit for your users is the increased download speed.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by osm.tool...@gmail.com on 10 Jul 2011 at 11:16