Hi Niels, On Thu, 2018-01-04 at 14:03 +0100, Niels De Graef wrote: > In light of the previous thread on the maps mailing list [1], I would > like to ask if anyone knows about the plans for the Mapbox tile > service in both the long term and the short term. > > Short term: am I correct in thinking that we have now transferred > onto > the pay-as-you-go plan (as mentioned in the last thread)? If so, does > the foundation get the bill and does the Board of Directors need to > know about this? If we can still enjoy the free plan, are the terms & > conditions still the same?
In the short term, we're having our access extended on a month-by-month basis while we work out a more permanent solution. Big thanks to MapBox for this offer. We're working with MapBox to see what the cost of the pay-as-you-go plan would be, and are trying to see how that could be affordable for the Foundation. > Long term: if we can continue with MapBox or another service > provider, > are other GNOME apps also allowed to use this service (and the JSON > service file of Maps)? I'm asking this as the GNOME Contacts > maintainer, as the app sorely needs to look into updating its code > displaying maps. I'm at a point where I'm even considering > (temporarily) ripping that feature out as it's leading to crashes for > some people. > I'm not sure about the specifics for this, but AIUI, we have a GNOME redirector in place so in theory, we should have something more stable even if we do switch providers. I'm not entirely sure who runs that - any ideas? Neil -- Neil McGovern Executive Director, The GNOME Foundation _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
