> What does this mean? How did Apple Maps use it? It's not true. Ish. On openstreetmap.org there's servers that render the map data into the images you see. T

> What does this mean? How did Apple Maps use it? It's not true. Ish. On openstreetmap.org there's servers that render the map data into the images you see. That's run by volunteers, on mostly donated hardware and hosting. There is no SLAs. If you run your big commericial app against that, and cause the load to go through the roof, the volunteer sysadmins will be sad, and will block your app. It's not commerical vs non-commerical. Big non-commerical apps do get blocked for misusing it too. You can download the raw data from ( https://planet.openstreetmap.org/ https://planet.openstreetmap.org/ ) and run your own tileserver and use that commerically. You can use OSM for commerical sites. You cannot use the volunteer hardware on openstreetmap.org for big usage.