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

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

generally when dealing with commercial users in an OSM capacity I point 
them to 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Commercial_OSM_Software_and_Services 
so that they can pick a commercial service provider (while also telling 
them that OSM data is free and they can set up their own servers with 
switch2osm.org etc).

The list is not maintained, and everyone can add themselves and claim to 
offer any services, but it's the best we have, and maintaining some sort 
of vetted list of recommendations would always carry the danger of the 
process being unfair in some way.

On 14.06.22 14:21, 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. 

The car sharing service I use does the same, and they have an overlay 
that shows their locations. The markers in the overlay are dynamic i.e. 
they will change colour according to availability and they will open a 
pop-up when you click on them, so whether or not the base map actually 
shows car sharing locations is irrelevant for my car sharing service. 
They could very well use a standard OSM-carto map.

Bye
Frederik

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