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The take away I got is that Google maps is a very good way to implement a map tile on your pages if you are a startup, one less thing to worry about, but if you succeed, be prepared to "optimize" the cost of that portion later. The per-unit cost is a steep slope, once you start to get volume.

Fair enough. No way would I try to make my own map at the beginning of a project.




You don't need to make your own map. MapQuest serves very nice OSM tiles for free. See how we did it using MapQuest here

http://blog.nestoria.co.uk/why-and-how-weve-switched-away-fr...

Then later if you feel like it you can switch to your own tiles




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