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"I’m hoping that if a few people post this on social media, Google will reconsider its decision to cut off Maps API access to RouteBuilder." Probably won't. Op

• Piskvorrr 11y ago
  As the original developer writes, porting the whole thing to a different API would be too demanding for his schedule. Perhaps someone else might want to pick up the project/create an OSM fork? (as a side note, that's exactly why we have avoided Google's semi-walled garden on a recent project: "it works, until someone Just Decides that it shouldn't work for your project specifically, and there's nothing you could do about that.")
  • bootload 11y ago
    "As the original developer writes, porting the whole thing to a different API would be too demanding for his schedule. Perhaps someone else might want to pick up the project/create an OSM fork?" Yes, a fork of some sort would be good. Future cartographic software tools should look to OpenStreetMap before google.
    • Piskvorrr 11y ago
      They are - but note that useful routing in OSM is a very recent (few years) feature, and still depends on data coverage (which varies wildly from one country to another).