Mapy is a financial supporter of OSM, which isn't free to develop btw. So they're not leeching of FOSS labour, they're helping to make it possible.
Phytobus
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Sorry but this is just bs. The only important feature that's behind a paywall is downloading offline maps for more than one country at the same time.
And services like this have to pay for the development and upkeep costs in some way, since they're not selling your data like Google does. There's nothing wrong with having a paid tier.
Regular OSM doesn't have elevation data as well as many other info that mapy does provide. And the map visualisation is much better than any competitor IMO, especially for hiking maps.
It's by far my favourite service for hiking maps, can highly recommend! For car navigation it's definitely behind google, but they're making progress
The verdict will stay in place even if she goes for an appeal. It can only be lifted if she actually wins the appeal but the chances of that are practically zero given the evidence.
I don't really use Organic Maps, but mapy works perfect on mobile in my experience. One big difference is that Mapy mimics the look of traditional paper hiking maps, which makes it much more convenient to read. Organic Maps has more of a standard OSM look, making it less convenient when you're using it as a hiking map.
It is, but if you disable ads they don't make any money of you. And the privacy features are really good.
Lekker bezig!
Man, there are so many websites for European alternatives now, I'm losing track. Someone should make a site for that lol.
What are y'all favourite European alternatives sites?
TLDR: out of all of these the only real european companies are:
- Bosch (group)
- TTS tooltechnic systems (group)
- Fein (independent)
- Hilti (independent)
And makita from Japan and one of the only independent manufacturers left, as well as Fein and Hilti.
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No, OSM is free for everyone, doesn't matter if you make profit off of it or not, so they don't have to pay for anything. They're choosing to support OSM to help it improve (which is also in their own benefit).