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

[John Whelan]

Thanks John

Frederik Ramm wrote on 6/14/2022 8:38 AM:
> 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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