[mapserver-users] Base map data for WMS

[pcreso at pcreso.com]

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.

Brent Wood

--- On Thu, 3/8/12, thomas bonfort <thomas.bonfort at gmail.com> wrote:

From: thomas bonfort <thomas.bonfort at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Base map data for WMS
To: "Paolo Corti" <pcorti at gmail.com>
Cc: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
Date: Thursday, March 8, 2012, 4:43 AM

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 16:23, Paolo Corti <pcorti at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> One of the mentioned constraints was offline usage...
>>
>
> yes, but it is possible to pre-generate the tiles, though not sure if
> this is feasible on just one server for the whole OSM dataset, but
> maybe for much simpler datasets would be the way to go
> P

By "pregenerate" I suppose you mean pre-download from the osm servers?
This in the general case is prohibited by osm's TOS :
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_usage_policy

>
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