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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
by 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 agoThey 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).