[OSM-talk] What can we offer to commercial users?

[Tom Hughes]

On 14/06/2022 13:21, John Whelan wrote:

> The question arises from my need to use a car sharing service.  Their 
> web site displays a zoomable google map but there wasn't really enough 
> detail to see exactly where the car station was.  It was in 
> OpenStreetMap and OSMand allows searching for them, shows and quite 
> happily calculated a route to it.
> 
> However the standard OSM web site doesn't show car sharing locations and 
> I'm not certain how much load it would put on the servers anyway.

Well I would expect a company like that to overlay the locations
from their own database anyway rather than trusting that ours are
up to date.

I mean our might actually be more accurate but the company will no
doubt think theirs is more accurate even if it isn't and hence want
to make sure they use it.

A major user like that where the map is a key feature probably wants
to be doing their own style/rendering anyway, or contracting somebody
to provide one.

Tom

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