Years ago I used openlayers and osm to develop an online map to display data for a research project I was working on. I originally considered using Google's api

Years ago I used openlayers and osm to develop an online map to display data for a research project I was working on. I originally considered using Google's api, but their licensing at the time was incompatible with the terms of our grant regarding our collected data. I enjoyed working with OSM, it was actually my first experience building an application around an external API. It was a fun experience and i was fairly pleased with the way it turned out. It ended up going live for a small time, though, we ended up running into a snag with the government after finding an endangered species in an active mine site and were forced to remove our public data and submit it all to a private government database locked behind fees.