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We can’t really use google maps in the Danish public sector where I work, because they track your data. So we use osm and I think you’re daily spot on. I work
by sidstling 8y ago
We can’t really use google maps in the Danish public sector where I work, because they track your data. So we use osm and I think you’re daily spot on.
I work in a small municipality so we don’t really have the resources to do the integration ourselves. What we did was find a company which specializes in making google maps like APIs/integration to osm as well as having a support line that can correct osm mistakes for us.
This is not free, like doing the integration ourselves would be. I can’t give you the exact price, but it is a lot cheaper than google maps and it’s worked great for us for several years now.
We did by a package with little osm support because we can update osm ourselves, but calculating routes is something we could never do within our budget.
If your country doesn’t have any companies offering these types of osm services, then I bet you could make a lot of money by building it though.
- OiNG 8y agoare you using mapbox by chance? im asking because i was under the impression that they were exactly this, a non google maps api.
- jimmaswell 8y ago> We can’t really use google maps in the Danish public sector where I work, because they track your data. Perfect example of stifling regulations hurting the average person.
- _khau 8y agoThis has to be sarcasm.
- badosu 8y agoIt certainly feels like it. If it did not have that snark though, one could make the point that the data could still be 'deanonimitized'.
- jimmaswell 8y agoIt's not sarcasm. It doesn't actually matter at all if Google Maps "tracks" you. But this pointless legislation decided it does and now people have to settle for surely inferior alternatives.
- daltonlp 8y agoYou're saying the "pointless legislation" had a point. Just not one that you agree with. This is a guess, but I suspect the point had to do with data privacy. Maybe someone wrote legislation that prohibits public websites from hosting ads, or third party browser-tracking software. And google maps fits that. In the parent comment, there's also this bit: > but it is a lot cheaper than google maps If true, this is an example of government regulations working as intended, and saving money.
- jimmaswell 8y agoIf an alternative was cheaper and of comparable quality then legislation shouldn't have been required for it to be chosen by whoever was in charge of the decision.