[Osmf-talk] What Are the Costs VS Utility of the Tile Servers to the OSM community.

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Thanks!

I replied there, both to hot dog comment
and more (?) serious parts.
20 Oct 2024, 17:56 by courtney.williamson at gmail.com:

> To Andy's good point - I moved this to the community forum: 
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> https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/what-are-the-costs-vs-utility-of-the-tile-servers-to-the-osm-community/120403
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> On Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 11:19 AM Edward Bainton <> bainton.ete at gmail.com> > wrote:
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>> Question for info and not as a challenge: 
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>> What would be the route into mapping for newbies if there were no tile-servers? If retiring them means retiring the map at >> openstreetmap.org <http://openstreetmap.org>>> , I know I would never have got into it. (But maybe that would have been >> a good thing <https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/1907943>>>   ;-)
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>> On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 at 16:06, Courtney <>> courtney.williamson at gmail.com>> > wrote:
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>>> I am putting the question below in a new thread, as it doesn't have to do with the AGM, but does seem like a topic that bears discussing. The question isn't "what are the technical benefits of the tile servers?" That is a different topic.  This is about the overall value of the tile servers versus the costs of maintaining them.
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>>> C
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>>> On Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 10:15 AM Steve Coast <>>> steve at stevecoast.com>>> > wrote:
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>>>>> On Oct 20, 2024, at 5:19 AM, Mikel Maron <>>>>> mikel.maron at gmail.com>>>>> > wrote:
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>>>>> In 2023, we organized a successful fundraising campaign >>>>>  https://blog.openstreetmap.org/category/organisation/fundraising/>>>>>  (the total announced results were £373,000, not sure if that's the source of the $300k figure).
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>>>> Yes, and that is genuinely great, but the question is what do we get for the money?
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>>>> The major output remains the free global tile server, where something like 99% of the usage is by third parties and not OSM. We create our own funding requirement and dedicate our sysadmin time to running this thing despite completely free alternatives now existing (e.g. >>>> https://openfreemap.org/>>>>  ) and then celebrate the “growth” of our “service”.
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>>>> We could use these resources to, for example, complete the map.
>>>>
>>>> It seems cheaper and more effective marketing to run a free OpenStreetMap coffee and hot dog stand in Times Square, New York City.
>>>>
>>>> Best
>>>>
>>>> Steve 
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