[SAC] OpenStreetMap Tile Cache?

[Grant Slater]

Hi OSGeo SAC,

QGIS over the last few releases has massively increased its usage of
tile.openstreetmap.org map tiles.

OpenStreetMap Operations Group are very supportive of QGIS using
OpenStreetMap tiles, but we have very limited free capacity.

QGIS accounts for around 5.3% of our daily app traffic. (vs 0.2% for
the OpenStreetMap editor JOSM).

We have 2 issues:

1) https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/34813 too many tiles being
loaded (that are not displayed)

2) We are under extreme server pressure at the moment, we badly need
extra caching and rendering servers for tile.openstreetmap.org.
Anything OSGeo could help with? OSM OWG can operate the donated
servers.

Kind regards,

Grant