[OSM-talk] OSMF: The people you are going to hand over your OSM data ...

Anthony osm at inbox.org
Mon Dec 7 13:42:13 GMT 2009


On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Stefan de Konink <stefan at konink.de> wrote:

> And if Google offers OSM in GoogleEarth and
> maps you are actually benefiting from several things that you cannot get
> now:
>
> - - Massive adoption, visibility to the general public
> - - Hosting, no more slow world wide tile servers
> - - And most likely if this `evil' company was involved the 'do trace'
> photos
>

There's nothing stopping them from putting the tile servers behind a
restrictive TOS, requiring a key to use the API, and limiting the number of
accesses per key, is there?
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