Farewell, Google Maps
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Farewell, Google Maps
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#2I wonder if this price hike has anything to do with the EU antitrust fine Google received recently.
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#3> OpenStreetMap is not supposed to be directly used by commercial sites.
Not if I understand their terms correctly [1] [2]. Maybe there's a distinction between the terms of the map data itself and the software published to interact with it?
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#4I wonder if this price hike has anything to do with the EU antitrust fine Google received recently.
I'm pretty is a percent of the reason why they decided this absurd price increase.
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#5> OpenStreetMap is not supposed to be directly used by commercial sites. Not if I understand their terms correctly [1] [2]. Maybe there's a distinction between the terms of the map data itself and the software published to interact with it? [1] https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright [2] https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/summary/
IIRC that's for the openstreetmap.org site, which wasn't built to answer queries from hundreds of commercial apps (like Maps API is). You're supposed to copy and deploy the dataset on your own servers so you don't burn bandwidth of the OSM project.
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#6> OpenStreetMap is not supposed to be directly used by commercial sites. Not if I understand their terms correctly [1] [2]. Maybe there's a distinction between the terms of the map data itself and the software published to interact with it? [1] https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright [2] https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/summary/
Openstreetmaps is not a tile provider. They to let you use their tile server for small scale stuff as far as I know, but if you want to use their data in a high volume you'll have to either pay a tile provider that uses their data, or generate your own.
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#7"Sudden change of policy by Google, which is directed specifically at startups (as smaller web sites should largely remain below even the new lower thresholds), is surely an unpleasant surprise for us and does not create much trust in Google as a vendor. In the future we would therefore keep our distance from Google Cloud and avoid deep integration with any Google services on which it can pull a similar trick. For example we would be wary on taking free Google Analytics for granted."
I think this is one of the most important points in the article - the way they handle these pricing changes destroys trust in Google's other business offerings. How can people use Google products and services as a core piece of their infrastructure when they're willing to bump their prices >10x with only a few months of notice? That could literally be a business-ending event, depending on how core that service is to the business.
In the case of maps, there weren't many great alternatives for a long time, due to Google sucking all the oxygen/profit potential out of the field with their excellent free offerings. Fortunately, their last (sudden) price bump seems to have allowed the creation of some good alternatives.
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#8I wonder if this price hike has anything to do with the EU antitrust fine Google received recently.
The price increase was announced (and implemented) a few months ago.
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#9I wonder if this price hike has anything to do with the EU antitrust fine Google received recently.
No, the price hike was decided several months ago, see http://geoawesomeness.com/developers-up-in-arms-over-google-...
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#10Is this price increase imposed on X-sharing outfits like Uber/Lyft/Lime/Bird/etc.?