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Re: Radar Maps Platform

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Post by nickpatrick »

michaelmcdonald wrote: post #69
nickpatrick wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would love to chat. Worth considering best solution given tradeoffs: Cost, coverage, customization options, enterprise-readiness

I believe the point is that Op doesn't _want_ to chat. I believe the originally point is you should be up front and _clear_ with your pricing rather than trying to force a conversation.

Yep, I get it. Working on a self-serve pricing calculator. Reality is that enterprise convos do make sense at sufficient scale. If it does here, our inbox is open!

Re: Radar Maps Platform

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Post by Helmut10001 »

nunodonato wrote: post #59
JamesBrooks wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I came to write exactly this comment, specifically I wanted to check what the pricing for forward geocoding was, as I've got a very significant monthly Google Maps bill for geocoding and if Radar gives results which are 95% as good as Google's at a cheaper price then I'd be jumping

why do so many people rely on Google for this? ArcGIS is vastly superior and much cheaper.

ESRI is as evil as Google (if not worse). If pricing is the only consideration, maybe ESRI is the way to go, but I would take other aspects into account, too (e.g. walled-garden signals, tricking customers, software-lock-in).

Re: Radar Maps Platform

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Post by 15457345234 »

nickpatrick wrote: post #71
michaelmcdonald wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe the point is that Op doesn't _want_ to chat. I believe the originally point is you should be up front and _clear_ with your pricing rather than trying to force a conversation.

Yep, I get it. Working on a self-serve pricing calculator. Reality is that enterprise convos do make sense at sufficient scale. If it does here, our inbox is open!

You get that they don't want to chat but circle right back around into 'our inbox is open' lol

Odd

Re: Radar Maps Platform

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Post by HumblyTossed »

nickpatrick wrote: post #65
edrxty wrote: post #63

Was hoping for some sort of interesting synthetic aperture radar (SAR) mapping service like Capella Space. Instead got more adtech APIs :/ Why did they name themselves "Radar"?

As someone who used to work at an ad tech company, I can tell you that we're very much not an ad tech company. In fact, we set out to build the opposite. More here: https://radar.com/blog/our-commitment-to-privacy Short, easy-to-spell name that suggests location. It's worked out pretty well for us, and we got the dot com!

> name that suggests location.

Not really.

Re: Radar Maps Platform

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Post by stblack »

nickpatrick wrote: post #23
whynotmaybe wrote: post #20

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The map isn't visible on my devices. I have a pihole on my network and the "stock" block list contains api.radar.io The list https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/h...

That's a pretty aggressive list...

Hi! I maintain that list and its variants.

The list is for people who don't want to be tracked by third parties. That's who we serve, and that's why we do what we do.

Based on this...

https://radar.com/pricing

... note the "tracked users" feature, unless I'm missing something, this isn't going to change.

Re: Radar Maps Platform

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Post by Vanit »

nickpatrick wrote: post #24
Vanit wrote: post #22

What's the policy for attribution and saving copies of annotated maps for distribution?

Can you share more about what you're hoping to do?

I used to work for a company that made an app for drafting evacuation signs, and we had a usecase for using a map as an underlay to show the surrounding buildings/terrain for the siteplan. I recall that quite a few map providers had a TOS that prevented that usecase (as the evac signs would be saved to pdf for distribution or printed), so I'm interested what the take is here.

Re: Radar Maps Platform

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Post by mikeocool »

15457345234 wrote: post #74
nickpatrick wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, I get it. Working on a self-serve pricing calculator. Reality is that enterprise convos do make sense at sufficient scale. If it does here, our inbox is open!

You get that they don't want to chat but circle right back around into 'our inbox is open' lol Odd

Often, if a company has "Contact Sales" on their pricing page it's because they only want customers who have a budget big enough to warrant contacting sales.

At an early stage, it's often easier and more lucrative to build for and support a few large customers than many small ones.

Re: Radar Maps Platform

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Post by 15457345234 »

mikeocool wrote: post #78
15457345234 wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You get that they don't want to chat but circle right back around into 'our inbox is open' lol Odd

Often, if a company has "Contact Sales" on their pricing page it's because they only want customers who have a budget big enough to warrant contacting sales. At an early stage, it's often easier and more lucrative to build for and support a few large customers than many small ones.

Yeah I understand that, I was just amused at the extent to which the guy was convincingly impersonating a half-bright chatbot

Re: Radar Maps Platform

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Post by freyfogle »

warpspin wrote: post #49
johncalvinyoung wrote: post #38

What's the terms on your forward geocoding? Many providers have terms that require live lookup of address->latlong, no caching permitted. My client's use case has long-lived addresses that may need to be mapped many times, and currently we're paying for one of the only geocoding services that permits us to persist the coordinates involved.

> and currently we're paying for one of the only geocoding services that permits us to persist the coordinates involved. I'll ask blatantly: Which one is that?

Hi, we allow you to store geocoding results as long as you like: https://opencagedata.com
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