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(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On 21 March 2017 at 14:34, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)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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Dan Garry
Lead Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
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