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How to

Access OpenStreetMap (OSM) through

Firewall

Version: 1.0
State: 09.04.2015
Description
Access OpenStreetMap through firewall

History
Version Date Author Comment
1.0 09.04.2015 R. Kaufmann Version 1

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Description
Access OpenStreetMap through firewall

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1 Access OpenStreetMap (OSM) through Firewall ............................................................................ 1
1.1 Issue Description ..................................................................................................................... 1
1.2 Solution ................................................................................................................................... 1

© 2013 Dynamic Design GmbH

Description
Access OpenStreetMap through firewall

1 Access OpenStreetMap (OSM) through Firewall

1.1 Issue Description

Issue Definition: Customer is experiencing issues connecting with OpenStreetMap service, in particular not being
able to download the OpenStreetMap tiles through a corporate firewall.

1.2 Solution

Scope Agreement: The reason behind the behavior is that some servers, like the ones responsible for the tiles,
use dynamic IP addresses.

The IPs for the tile servers might change more frequently because they are behind a geographically distributed
CDN that can change depending on demand and availability. You can access the individual caches directly with
their IPs, but this is not encouraged, as that then bypasses load balancing and high availability mechanisms.

As a recommendation, it is important to configure a DNS-based firewall/proxy to get access to the domain

*.openstreetmap.org. You need to add into your firewall/proxy the following domain names (tile servers) that
use dynamic IP addresses:

 http://a.tile.openstreetmap.org

 http://b.tile.openstreetmap.org

 http://c.tile.openstreetmap.org

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