Maybe it doesn't matter to you - which is perfectly fine by me, I respect your choice. As for me, I've had "my" data (edits which I have contributed) in too man

Maybe it doesn't matter to you - which is perfectly fine by me, I respect your choice. As for me, I've had "my" data (edits which I have contributed) in too many projects, only to have the "oh, and we're shutting the service down/restricting access/whatever, and no, you can't have the data, all ours!" happen to me. I'm certainly not expecting Google Maps to go under, but I don't like the idea "sure, we will gladly take your data, but you can only do X, Y, and Z with them, and only as long as we're not angry at you." In other words, I have hit the limits of GMaps usefulness for my uses; I understand this doesn't necessarily happen to everyone :) (Also related: in my geographic locations of interest, OSM is now a workable alternative - compared to five years ago, when I was struggling to fit within Google's terms, because there was no usable alternative for me then)