On 10/07/2018 20:16, Jez Nicholson wrote:
https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=fae788aa91e54244b161b59725dcbb2a "...updated every few weeks..." is not so great "...freely available for any user or developer..." sounds good discuss....
I think it's a positive. One of the biggest issues with large-scale use of OSM is that OSM's own tile server isn't suited for high-volume use, but most of the alternative tile servers are rate-limited and require payment for larger volumes. If ESRI's tile server will, as the blog post suggests, be free to access, then it will be a more useful alternative for users who don't have the resources to host their own tile server.
I think a more granular update schedule is unlikely to be an issue for most users. Even "every few weeks" is going to be a lot better than Bing and Google.
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