As a programmer myself I understand that free vs non-free causes more work for you. However you cannot ignore one of the foundations of the wikimedia movement because it makes a little more work for you. I honestly don't understand why you thought that Apple maps would be acceptable at all. You have both a breach of our privacy policy and a violation of our free software enforcement policy. Yes using OSM adds work and increases the download size, but is a valid option. If OSM or other free software wasn't possible then we might consider non-free alternatives but that's not the case.
On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 12:18 PM Dan Garry dgarry@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 21 March 2017 at 14:34, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Technical considerations are imho less relevant. What trumps it is functionality.
Technical considerations are very relevant if one is doing something technical, for example developing an iOS app or a maps tile service.
Our maps have to be good everywhere and as far as I know OSM is superior in places where there is profit to be made from maps.
If you choose to ignore the technical difficulties and half of my earlier email, then yes, that may be true.
Current maps world wide and historical maps are what we need. How would
you
use the Apple maps for a map of the Ottoman empire?
Given that our maps service does not support this, and will not any time soon, this is very off-topic.
Dan
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