<div dir="ltr">Interesting. Do they pay Google for the map and tileserver use (even if they don't realise that's what they're paying for)? <div><br></div><div>Or rather, since they've clearly not updated whatever agreement they had with Google for a while, <i>if</i> the map were functioning would that mean they were paying Google?</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 at 14:46, David Woolley <<a href="mailto:forums@david-woolley.me.uk">forums@david-woolley.me.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 03/12/2019 09:47, Edward Bainton wrote:<br>
> <br>
> General Elections Online <br>
> <<a href="https://electionresults.parliament.uk/#Cities%20of%20London%20and%20Westminster" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://electionresults.parliament.uk/#Cities%20of%20London%20and%20Westminster</a>> (hosted <br>
> at <a href="http://parliament.uk" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">parliament.uk</a> <<a href="http://parliament.uk" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://parliament.uk</a>>) have got a failed page where <br>
> the Google map is overlaid with "Development purposes only".<br>
> <br>
> I was planning to suggest they use OSM instead.<br>
> <br>
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The advantage to them of using Google is that Google provides the tile <br>
servers.  OSM tile servers aren't funded to support a mass market use <br>
like this, so the organisation will have to install and run their own <br>
tile servers.<br>
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