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Is this because Google has increased the api pricing and people have switched to OSM?
by post_break 6y ago
Is this because Google has increased the api pricing and people have switched to OSM?
- lucb1e 6y agoIf at all, then only as an indirect effect. I haven't really noticed an uptick in contributors since then. There has been more publicity and more people using it (and abusing the community-run openstreetmap.org tile servers for commercial purposes²). ² It's fine to use OSM for commercial purposes, but hosting the tiles costs bandwidth and computational power. Embedding the community servers in your taxi tracking product and refreshing the page and map background every second is just a dick move.