[OSM-talk] OSMF to provide commercial tile service? [WAS: something else]

[Nick Whitelegg]

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>Having the OSMF provide commercial tiles is a bad idea. It would:
>- reduce services available to the community
>- hurt the community by competing against it

>Why do I think that having the OSMF provide commercial tiles is such a
>bad idea?


Hi Richard, yes I can see there are some issues come to think of it. Just to clarify BTW - my whole original post was really from the point of view of commercial people helping out the community by funding the servers and allowing community projects freer access to the tiles, not the other way round, but I can see that if those commercial entities could start playing the "we're paying for it, they're not" line.

Nick

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