Re: [Qlandkartegt-users] OSM Tile Server & fake user-agents

[Oliver Eichler <olive...@gm...>]

You are completely right Albrecht. And no one is forcing you to use it if you don't trust it. In fact it's a low 
budget webspace services where I have no control at all about what is happening. 

If you don't like that, you still have the possibility to get the map definitions from sf.net directly. Of cource at 
sf.net it is the same situation. You do not know what's happening at their server. It's completely out of my 
control. 

But the best part: The map definitions are no secret and easy to understand. Thus if you look at one you 
can write your own. 

Which boils down to: The more comfort, the less security and privacy. No surprise on that either. :D

I personally would prefere if everyone takes care of the online maps themselves. But I was constantly asked 
to make access easier and to supply a collection of maps. Thanks to the work of Fabrice and Martin this has 
been possible. It's not perfect as many things are not perfect. And if you have a good idea to improve it you 
are welcome to go ahead. 

Oliver


> Am 17.02.14 17:16 schrieb(en) Grant Slater:
> > I guess you mean: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_usage_policy Is
> > there anything specific in the usage policy that you have an issue with?
> > Or is the issue that there are usage terms?
> Just a side note - the suggested alternative "Load online map" in QLandkarte
> GT connects the user to www.qlandkarte.org.  The site even doesn't have a
> privacy statement.  It doesn't support https (only a 'server works'
> message), and it couldn't, as checking with openssl's s_client returns a
> broken certificate (expired, bad name)...
> 
> Cheers, Albrecht.