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AFAIK, OSM is not happy when you use their tile servers for large commercial projects like DDG[0], so DDG would have to run, maintain and update that whole infr
by kalleboo 7y ago
AFAIK, OSM is not happy when you use their tile servers for large commercial projects like DDG[0], so DDG would have to run, maintain and update that whole infrastructure themselves. For a service of their size it would probably require at least a dedicated engineer.
With Apple Maps, they just have to include some JavaScript and Apple deals with all of that.
[0] https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/tiles/ https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/tiles/