[Talk-GB] Elections Online website - candidate for OSM?

[Edward Bainton]

Interesting. Do they pay Google for the map and tileserver use (even if
they don't realise that's what they're paying for)?

Or rather, since they've clearly not updated whatever agreement they had
with Google for a while, *if* the map were functioning would that mean they
were paying Google?

On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 at 14:46, David Woolley <forums at david-woolley.me.uk>
wrote:

> On 03/12/2019 09:47, Edward Bainton wrote:
> >
> > General Elections Online
> > <
> https://electionresults.parliament.uk/#Cities%20of%20London%20and%20Westminster> (hosted
>
> > at parliament.uk <http://parliament.uk>) have got a failed page where
> > the Google map is overlaid with "Development purposes only".
> >
> > I was planning to suggest they use OSM instead.
> >
>
> The advantage to them of using Google is that Google provides the tile
> servers.  OSM tile servers aren't funded to support a mass market use
> like this, so the organisation will have to install and run their own
> tile servers.
>
>
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