OSM provider tiles with access blocked

[Sorin Mecu]

Recently 2 of our clients started to receive tiles with Access Blocked when using the OSM tiles.  See: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Access_blocked 

The Silverlight RadMap is hosted in a winforms webbrowser control. Anybody else have encoutered this issue? Any advice?

[Jason D]

I use it in a WinForms app, but not having any issues yet. However, we cache the tiles for two weeks to prevent repeated access to OSM. Our clients generally in one area at a time, so once the tiles are downloaded, they will likely not hit the servers again for awhile.

[Sorin Mecu]

From what i know the OSM servers have an HTTP Expiry Header set to 7 days. Any idea how can someone disable the caching? I know that one of the users who experiences the access blocked, have the IE Check for newer versions of stored pages set to Automatically

@Jason: You are using the WPF version of the map control? If not, how do you enforce caching?

[Jason D]

Yes, I'm using the WPF version, so I probably can't help much. I just do this to cache it:

        moMapProvider.IsTileCachingEnabled = True
        CType(moMapProvider.CacheStorage, FileSystemCache).MaxExpirationTime = System.TimeSpan.FromDays(15)
        CType(moMapProvider.CacheStorage, FileSystemCache).CachePath = IO.Path.Combine( _
         System.Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.LocalApplicationData), _
         "TelerikMapCache\OpenStreetMapProvider")

where moMapProvider is an OpenStreetMapProvider.

[Andrey]

Hello Sorin Mecu,

We haven't had such problems with OSM in our applications. The OSM manage access to the map tiles using own usage policy. It looks like your application (or your customers) did something which brake this policy.

All the best,

Andrey Murzov

the Telerik team