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Stamen could definitely be added as a free tile host (as should OSM themselves), but I would specify that it's the hosting service that's being offered freely,

Stamen could definitely be added as a free tile host (as should OSM themselves), but I would specify that it's the hosting service that's being offered freely, not just the tiles themselves. While the tiles are free (CC) I would say a list of freely licenced downloadable resources/assets for devs would be much bigger/broader in scope.

DoreenMichele 6y ago
Thanks. I've tried to do a little reading up on Saas, Paas and Iaas and tried to understand this a bit better. I'll try to do a pull request in the next day or two. For me, Stamen Maps have been a big deal for stuff I do. It took me forever to find something of this caliber that's suitable for my aims, but I'm just doing maps for various projects and not some kind of GIS thing.
- lucideer 6y ago
  > I've tried to do a little reading up on Saas, Paas and Iaas and tried to understand this a bit better To distill this down for the purpose of this specific topic (map tiles): - the map tiles being provided under CC is a copyright / right-of-use / legal intellectual property thing. Nothing to do with any provision of material service by Stamen What Stamen provide that's relevant here is a service, that's somewhere vaguely in between SaaS and PaaS. - SaaS would be if Stamen provided some kind of maps website, with accounts, etc. for working with data & displaying maps. They don't really do that fully. - PaaS is a bit closer to what Stamen do: they run a server and host their own map tiles. You can point your website at their server, and they pay the hosting cost of the traffic you send there. (PaaS as a buzzword technically involves a bit more than this, but this would be a subset of it). - IaaS is an unrelated thing here: this would be like if they offered servers for you to go and host your own map tiles on, along with a load of tools for managing those servers. TL;DR: The CC-licencing of tiles is about releasing "artwork"/IP? (is there a better term for map styles??) that they've already created. Tile-hosting is about paying for internet traffic of the browsers hitting the server where those tiles live.
  - DoreenMichele 6y ago
    Thank you.

DoreenMichele 6y ago

Thanks. I've tried to do a little reading up on Saas, Paas and Iaas and tried to understand this a bit better. I'll try to do a pull request in the next day or two. For me, Stamen Maps have been a big deal for stuff I do. It took me forever to find something of this caliber that's suitable for my aims, but I'm just doing maps for various projects and not some kind of GIS thing.

lucideer 6y ago
> I've tried to do a little reading up on Saas, Paas and Iaas and tried to understand this a bit better To distill this down for the purpose of this specific topic (map tiles): - the map tiles being provided under CC is a copyright / right-of-use / legal intellectual property thing. Nothing to do with any provision of material service by Stamen What Stamen provide that's relevant here is a service, that's somewhere vaguely in between SaaS and PaaS. - SaaS would be if Stamen provided some kind of maps website, with accounts, etc. for working with data & displaying maps. They don't really do that fully. - PaaS is a bit closer to what Stamen do: they run a server and host their own map tiles. You can point your website at their server, and they pay the hosting cost of the traffic you send there. (PaaS as a buzzword technically involves a bit more than this, but this would be a subset of it). - IaaS is an unrelated thing here: this would be like if they offered servers for you to go and host your own map tiles on, along with a load of tools for managing those servers. TL;DR: The CC-licencing of tiles is about releasing "artwork"/IP? (is there a better term for map styles??) that they've already created. Tile-hosting is about paying for internet traffic of the browsers hitting the server where those tiles live.
- DoreenMichele 6y ago
  Thank you.