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This is what stops me: "OpenStreetMap data is free for everyone to use. Our tile servers are not."

https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/tiles/




Is that a big problem for you? The OSM operations working group is run by volunteers, on semi-donated hardware. They don't offer SLAs, they don't offer uptime guarantees. If you create an app that's (say) responsible for a 20% increase on load, they'll block you. If you're that popular buy a tile service from someone else.




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