Very simply... the more people that use our Open stuff (tiles, services, sites, etc) the more we demonstrate value / presence / brand recognition to our larger organization. The more we demonstrate value, the more we'll be allowed to do that benefits the community, like sponsoring Wherecamp 5280 or being a part of pushing P2 further down the pike, or providing an alternate tile set for anyone to use.
Or, to put it another, even simpler way, Anthony - I hope that in some small way, when you have a choice of commercial map/directions vendors to use for some / any reason (if you ever do, not to offend your refined cartographic abilities / sensibilities), you would choose MapQuest over another site, because we have, in some noticeable way, demonstrated that we understand, value, and are actively working on Free Speech vs Free Beer. Hope that makes sense / helps Ant On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Antony Pegg <[email protected]> > wrote: > > someone (I think it was Anthony) recently said that we had to open up our > > tiles because of the CC-by-SA licence. > > > > On reflection, yeah I guess technically you are correct, we had to... but > we > > never even asked the question - we wanted to. We are happy to. > > Why? >
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