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

[Matthias Meißer]

Yes I guess this trend will come and I realy want to slow down your 
action Stefan :)

But on the other side we had problems with servers last weeks, so why 
not pointing to the Tile usage policy in the same way? To me the "OSM is 
a free project, but the server ressources are not" is quiet easy to 
understand for everyone and this might prevent new devs who would change 
over to OSM (to fast), from killing the servers. We already had the 
case, that a few single Apps alone blocked the tile queue and the wiki 
and of course this situation is bad for the Apps as well.

But this is just my personal idea. Anyway its always good to promote OSM :)

bye
Matthias

Am 31.10.2011 01:06, schrieb 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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