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Without the donation of Maps credits from Google, findthemasks.com couldn't have happened exactly as it did. I can't imagine what our bill would have been other
by ISL 6y ago
Without the donation of Maps credits from Google, findthemasks.com couldn't have happened exactly as it did. I can't imagine what our bill would have been otherwise. Donations from a number of companies were (and remain) essential to leveraging the skilled volunteer workforce into something awesome.
- rvnx 6y agoIf really no companies were interested, maybe you would just have added new POIs on OpenStreetMaps and everybody could build on it
- fomine3 6y agoI'm not in Taiwan but Japan (not metropolis), here OSM is not enough detailed and not updated well. Is it different in other countries?
- glaucon 6y agoCertainly from my experience in the cities of New Zealand its as good as Google maps and in some respects superior. I just assumed it would be like that in Taiwan and so when I read about the Google bill I was thinking "shame they didn't use OSM". Certainly if I were to make a similar project for where I live I would use OSM for it.
- baylearn 6y agoThey could have used OSM if Google charged standard rates for maps
- redis_mlc 6y agoThe sibling replies mentioning Openstreetmap are correct. When displaying placemarkers, like this, you don't need Google Maps. Also, for showing maps on a high-volume homepage like this, you can use caching, robots.txt and old-school HTML image maps.