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Deutsche Post and DHL switch to OSM from Google Maps [DE] (www.golem.de)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I dont think they pay anything I the article itself it says it’s free to use and that the main factor to switch were the costs. In the comments there people also say that DHL doesn’t seem to donate to the project.

Here ist the part from the article translated to English:

Since there has been no announcement of the change from either Deutsche Post or DHL, the reasons for this step remain unclear. Presumably, cost reasons may have played a role. Deutsche Post had to pay fees to Google for the use of Google Maps. The data of Openstreetmap is under a free license and may be used without payment of license fees.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I dont think they pay anything I the article itself it says it’s free to use

The data is free to download. Someone has to host the map data and that's either a 3rd party provider or self-hosted. Both cost money.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Of course, but that’s not what the previous poster was talking about. They were talking about commercial use of the data.

Someone also answered the hosting question on the golem forum, they do host it themselves: https://forum.golem.de/kommentare/opensource/paketverfolgung-und-mehr-post-und-dhl-wechseln-von-google-maps-zu-openstreetmap/immerhin-laedt-die-post-die-daten-von-den-eigenen-servern/170687,6788315,6788315,read.html

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

that’s not what the previous poster was talking about. They were talking about commercial use of the data.

Unless they weren't and it was a genuine confusion of OpenStreetMap with something like MapBox which is a paid service to embed OSM-based maps. I merely clarified because not everyone can be expected to know everything.