Thanks for this piece of insight. Nobody in OSM's community of many thousands had ever brought it up before. The reality is that if OSM is to scale to 7 billio

Thanks for this piece of insight. Nobody in OSM's community of many thousands had ever brought it up before. The reality is that if OSM is to scale to 7 billion users it itself can _not_ be the provider of all the tiles. The amount of infrastructure that this would require would be prohibitive for a nonprofit. Rendering & serving map tiles isn't like serving wikipedia pages.