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

[Tom Hughes]

The reason they're getting that error is almost certainly that they
aren't paying and they're either not passing an API key at all or
they're passing one that is for a different site.

Most likely the site was developed before API keys were required
and has never been updated, but if they add a key they will almost
certainly exceed the free allowance and have to pay which is likely
why they haven't done so.

Tom

On 03/12/2019 15:21, Edward Bainton wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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> <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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