Wikimedia no longer serves tiles to external users

Open brianwdavis opened this issue 5 years ago • 1 comments

https://github.com/rstudio/leaflet/blob/c6212646ae3458f7da90781a0560e8982856b17d/docs/libs/leaflet-providers/leaflet-providers_1.9.0.js#L790

Wikimedia is now restricting requests to their tile server to only Wikimedia-affiliated clients. Is this something that should just be documented in the R help, or should this functionality be removed from the R interface?

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T261424

Dec 01 '20 03:12 brianwdavis

Please make a pull request to https://github.com/leaflet-extras/leaflet-providers/blob/bc7482c62f1bbe3737682777716ec946e052deb6/leaflet-providers.js#L946-L953 with updated information

Once accepted under https://github.com/leaflet-extras/leaflet-providers, we can update https://github.com/rstudio/leaflet.providers to the latest version.

Current rstudio/leaflet.providers version: 1.9.0 Current leaflet-extras/leaflet.providers version: 1.11.0

Dec 01 '20 14:12 schloerke