On Jan 30, 2008 10:06 PM, Gervase Markham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Stubbs wrote: > > So how much do you suppose they'd be willing to pay for this service? If > > enough people want it, and enough people are willing to pay enough for > > it, it may at some point in the future appear. > > The problem is that you need hardware/network resources to offer this > > kind of service, and those resources aren't usually free. > > But doesn't this point apply to the slippy map also? Why are we making > that free, if it consumes hardware and network resources? >
Because it's nice to have some output? All I was saying was that if we want more it needs paying for. Be that OSMF, someone else, user pays, advertising pays whatever. It was a serious question btw, how much would they be willing to pay for it? Dave
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