[OSM-talk] "Crudely-drawn pint glasses"

[Gervase Markham]

Dave Stubbs wrote:
> So how much do you suppose they'd be willing to pay for this service? If
> enough people want it, and enough people are willing to pay enough for
> it, it may at some point in the future appear.
> The problem is that you need hardware/network resources to offer this
> kind of service, and those resources aren't usually free.

But doesn't this point apply to the slippy map also? Why are we making 
that free,  if it consumes hardware and network resources?

Gerv