[Maps-l] Caching proxy of tiles (hikebike)

[Raphael Volz]

Servus Klaus,

schön mal wieder von Dir zu hören, wenn auch von einer abonnierten Liste.
Falls Du Hilfe brauchst sag bescheid, mit Tile-Rendering kennen wir uns
aus...

Gruss

Raphael

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Klaus Bechtold <klaus at gpsies.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> my name is Klaus Bechtold from Berlin, the guy behind the hobby project
> and one-man-show GPSies.com (http://www.gpsies.com/). As you know, many
> of the map mashups or community must change from Google Maps to
> alternatives (because we're over the limit of 25.000 API calls a day).
>
> I just changed to the new JS API from Cloudmade, called Leaflet and I am
> using the free MapQuest maps (which are good, but not good enough for
> outdoor people). I'm also using also some other maps, like OpenCycleMaps
> or the great hikebike maps of Colin Marquardt.
>
> Next time I'm planning to produce own tiles for GPSies.com. The (3 new)
> servers are running and we must now configure it, but this will take
> some time.
>
> Now to my question. I just called Colin (hikebikemap.org) and I asked
> him, if GPSies.com (only the website, no mobile devices) could deliver
> the tiles by a caching proxy of hikebikemap.org - as the new standard
> maps of GPSies.com. Colin said, he had no problem with it, but I should
> ask you, if it would be ok for the load and traffic of the toolserver
> tileserver.
>
> GPSies has about 30.000 (winter) to 100.000 (sommer) page views with
> maps a day. Most of the users are from Germany (50%). Most of the tracks
> are from almost the same regions.
>
> I'd be appreciate, if you would allow my the tiles caching of your
> server. I also like to donate.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Best regards from Berlin, Germany
>
> Klaus Bechtold
>
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