Fwd: Fwd: Could Gnome Maps use OSM tiles servers?

[Ma Jiehong <ma jiehong gmail com>]

I'm sorry for the flood, but board osmfoundation org seems to be 
non-functional.

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Subject: Fwd: Could Gnome Maps use OSM tiles servers?
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 22:19:52 +0200
From: Ma Jiehong <ma jiehong gmail com>
To: board gnome com
CC: operations osmfundation org

Hello Gnome Foundation Board,

Gnome Maps is currently experiencing a service issue, as MapQuest has 
stop serving tiles. Due to the architecture of the application, this 
appears to brake all delivered versions of Gnome Maps to date.

[A bug report is tracking 
this](https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=764841), and a patch to 
use OSM tile server is being worked on.

However, this requires the authorisation of the OSM foundation.

I've just sent an email to operations osmfundation org requesting an 
authorisation to use OSM's tiles servers.

The content of the email I sent is present in the bug report, and is 
forwarded to you for reference.

Perhaps the Gnome Foundation could provide some form of contribution to 
OpenStreetMap in exchange of the use of their tile server.

The community would greatly appreciate if any meaningful action could 
come up from this on-going issue.

Kindly yours,

Jiehong


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Subject: Could Gnome Maps use OSM tiles servers?
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 20:22:12 +0200
From: Jerome Mazeries <email majiehong com>
To: operations osmfoundation org

Hello OSM Foundation,

[Gnome Maps](https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Maps) is a Linux Desktop 
application part of the Gnome Desktop. It uses MapQuest as a tile server.

However, Gnome Maps is currently experiencing a service issue, as 
MapQuest has stop serving tiles. Due to the architecture of the 
application, this appears to brake all delivered versions of Gnome Maps 
to date.

[A bug report is tracking 
this](https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=764841), and a patch to 
use OSM tile server is being worked on.

However, we would like to ask for the permission to use OSM tile servers.

This could be a temporary solution if need be.

I visited the [Tile Policy 
page](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_usage_policy), so here 
are some answers to the requirements:

1. Heavy use
I don't have access to usage statistics yet.

2. Clearly display licence attribution.
This should be sorted out in the patch itself.

3. Do not actively or passively encourage copyright infringement
Gnome Maps is a GPLv2 application, and this is never encourage in any way.

4. Calls to /cgi-bin/export may only be triggered by direct end-user action
Export is not possible through the application itself.

5. Highly Recommended: Do not hardcode any URL at tile.openstreetmap.org 
into an app
The application architecture has hardcoded URL, thus this issue :D

If you could participate to the bug report directly, it would be great.
Otherwise, I will make sure the bug report has all of our conversation 
about this issue.

Kindly Yours,

Jiehong