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Google slashes Indian maps API prices – after rival's launch(www.theregister.com)

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Timely_Jellyfish_2077@programming.dev
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The rival is openstreetmaps

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GreenEngineering3475@lemmy.world
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Nope, as usual a corpo has taken OSM’s data and are going to provide it under new banner with few useful edits and not contribute to OSM.

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sunzu@kbin.run
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is organic maps good?

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Jak2k@discuss.tchncs.de
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Wouldn’t that be illegal?

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Timely_Jellyfish_2077@programming.dev
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Yeah and his audacity to call it as “in-house maps”.

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doodledup@lemmy.world
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Well because OSM is neither an app nor a service. It’s not an alternative to Google Maps.

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