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" but also made it mandatory to give your credit card number even if you do not go over the free limit !" Only if you are a new user. Google published a transition document for existing users and it says they don't have to add a card, but then of course your maps stop working for the rest of the month if you go over the $200 free quota. So current users have it easier, but new users have to add a card.
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> Probably the best UX of any map apps Except for the ads, which I consider to be pretty terrible UX compared to not having any ads. I'd be willing to pay to avoid any ads in HERE Maps.
I've been using Here Maps for 4-5 years now and haven't seen a single add. Are you sure we are talking about the same app?
I've definitely seen ads in it before, can't recall on which of Windows/Android/iOS platforms though.
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Are you from the USA? I'll assume so, because I've often seen this on HN/Reddit: a lot of people there seem to use Waze or other traffic info sources for getting around traffic. I want to know whether I'll be delayed so I'll check before a trip (and also during a trip if it's >2h), but I can recall driving around a jam maybe once in my life. It usually isn't faster, and that's assuming the byways/B-roads aren't conge…
Some of this is probably due to American vs European driving habits, with respect to long trips. It's hard to gain much by routing around congestion along a half-hour trip, but if you're going to spend half a day or longer then you definitely want to know when there's a wreck that makes it worthwhile to get off the interstate to avoid.
I always wondered who actually pays for the bills in OSM? Who pays all the servers, all the traffic, etc...?
With OSM you have to host the map tiles yourself if you add maps to your website, because OSM servers only provide limited traffic hosting via the API.
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Google Maps is pretty bad without fast, reliable data, I remember trying it on Sprint, no joy unless I could pull at least a megabit a second.
I have used it all day, every day I that I've worked in the last seven years on Sprint and very rarely have a problem. One strange thing I've noticed over the years is there's a difference on Android vs Apple -- can't count the times I've gone to the wrong place following the Android tablet in the car only to have to pull up the address on the iPhone to get there. When they first put the tablets in the cars I was usi…
Also you can try https://windymaps.com/app I think they're using osm data for their maps. Can navigate also on bike or hike.
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> up-to-date, auto-updating, officially recommended and totally secure server images Plus volunteers to answer any and all support requests? And the tile rendering needs to be fast? $5/month isn't enough hardware to a world-wide tile server and it sounds like users aren't willing to pay for setup costs. > just want to "throw in a map", I don't want to spend a day+ doing it. There's plenty of SaaS offering OSM tile ho…
I think the $5/month he's envisioning is for the computing/bandwidth charges on the cloud providers he mentions. The software, container, images, etc. should all be provided for free, and the open source bug tracker should have a 1 second SLA for replying to questions on getting it set up. But on a serious note, yes, it would be nice if there was some pre-built container that just served the OSM tiles on an HTTP port…
I just recently spent a few hours working with OSM and Nominatim as part of a project for my university, an event planning page for ActivityPub social media: http://fedevent.herokuapp.com/ OSM maps are quite detailed, perfectly serviceable...but Nominatim is not very good (at least in my experience?) I used https://github.com/perliedman/leaflet-control-geocoder to interact with Nominatim but entering something that c…