Hi Svetlana,
While we do get data from OSM, we run our own tile server called Kartotherian https://github.com/kartotherian/kartotherian, mainly for the following reasons:
- OSM's infrastructure is fragile and has cache challenges - Their datacenter is in London, which means latency becomes an issue - OSM's rendering stack can't scale horizontally well enough to be sure they could handle our load - Their map style is not mobile friendly - We require multilingual and vector tiles, which their stack can't do (currently) - We wanted to provide nicer map styling in general
Hope that helps!
On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 1:06 PM, Svetlana Tkachenko <svetlana@members.fsf.org
wrote:
Are we even building our own tiles? I thought the 'Wikimedia maps' is just an interface to OSM.
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