[OSM-talk] Google: pay for map and API

[Stefan Keller]

Hi

I was alerted by a large national search company telling me that they
are using G* Maps but now they are glad to know that there exists OSM
as an alternative (to what has tbd.).

And there are also blogs saying that smaller developers will be hit
too, especially when their innovative website becomes more well-known:
See this article:
http://www.netmagazine.com/news/devs-respond-google-maps-api-limits-111510

So my thought was too to make a press release - but without bashing G*
and without referring to the restrictions (see e.g. here
http://code.google.com/intl/uk-UK/apis/maps/faq.html#tos_pricing ). I
would rather remind that OSM is "free" (under the license terms) and
that the OSM data and tools are there to be used in own websites.

Yours, S.

Am 30. Oktober 2011 19:11 schrieb Matthias Meißer <digi_c at arcor.de>:
> As I pointed out in my blog post, I would be happy for everbody that takes a
> review in the data and it's processing ;)
>
> But yes I understand thats not good stuff for a press relase. But on the
> other hand it makes no sense to me to enforce a PR just for glee. As I noted
> in some Google article it's not that clear how consumers are affected, cause
> do they make use of the API?
>
> Matthias
>
> Am 30.10.2011 14:00, schrieb Phil Endecott:
>>
>> Matthias Mei?er wrote:
>>>
>>> Well, another aspect for a press release might be, that OSM has
>>> limited resources as well. Maybe this visualisation and analysis of
>>> the tile usage by Apps would be a good starting point:
>>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/!i!/diary/15190
>>
>> Friends, please don't do anything at all, let alone a press release,
>> based on Matthias' data. It might not be as reliable as he hoped.
>>
>>
>> Regards, Phil.
>>
>>
>>
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