>People don't realize how onerous and expensive it is to run a mapping service (even if you use OSM data). Yes. Apple learned this with their disastrous rollou

>People don't realize how onerous and expensive it is to run a mapping service (even if you use OSM data). Yes. Apple learned this with their disastrous rollout of their custom mapping solution a few years back. Mapping/geographic projects are nothing to sneeze at, even for the big guys. There's just so well-integrated and useful that we hardly think about the complication involved.