<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Bulk downloads are indeed discouraged, but setting up your own OSM database (imposm, osmosis, etc...) from downloaded OSM data, & creating a locally cached tileset from these data is supported, if not encouraged.<br><br>Brent Wood<br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 3/8/12, thomas bonfort <i><thomas.bonfort@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: thomas bonfort <thomas.bonfort@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Base map data for WMS<br>To: "Paolo Corti" <pcorti@gmail.com><br>Cc: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org<br>Date: Thursday, March 8, 2012, 4:43 AM<br><br><div class="plainMail">On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 16:23, Paolo Corti <<a ymailto="mailto:pcorti@gmail.com" href="/mc/compose?to=pcorti@gmail.com">pcorti@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>>><br>>> One of the mentioned constraints was offline usage...<br>>><br>><br>> yes, but it is possible to pre-generate the tiles, though not sure if<br>> this is feasible on just one server for the whole OSM dataset, but<br>> maybe for much simpler datasets would be the way to go<br>> P<br><br>By "pregenerate" I suppose you mean pre-download from the osm servers?<br>This in the general case is prohibited by osm's TOS :<br><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_usage_policy" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_usage_policy</a><br><br>><br>> --<br>> Paolo Corti<br>> Geospatial software developer<br>> web: <a href="http://www.paolocorti.net" target="_blank">http://www.paolocorti.net</a><br>> twitter: @capooti<br>> skype: capooti<br>_______________________________________________<br>mapserver-users mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org"
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