On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Kay Drangmeister kay@drangmeister.net wrote:
Obvious follow-up question given "default" is the most space and presumably also the most time consuming style: why are we duplicating the original osm tiles in the first place? As a backup, or for keeping load off the osm.org server?
The OSM tile server cannot handle the amount of traffic that Wikipedia would generate, so yes, it's to keep load off of the OSM server.