[SAC] OpenStreetMap Tile Cache?

[Alex Mandel]

On 3/2/20 8:31 AM, Grant Slater wrote:
> 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

Grant,

Great to hear from you again. Yes I think we can offer you some capacity
if you can manage it. Let's get a ticket going on
https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo and then we can discuss the exact details.

Disk space? Bandwidth expectations? CPU/RAM? Really anything about what
resource load is expected/needed.

Thanks,
Alex