As a programmer myself I understand that free vs non-free causes more work for you. However you cannot ignore one of the foundations of the wikimedia movement because it makes a little more work for you. I honestly don't understand why you thought that Apple maps would be acceptable at all. You have both a breach of our privacy policy and a violation of our free software enforcement policy. Yes using OSM adds work and increases the download size, but is a valid option. If OSM or other free software wasn't possible then we might consider non-free alternatives but that's not the case.
On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 12:18 PM Dan Garry <[email protected]> wrote: > On 21 March 2017 at 14:34, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Technical considerations are imho less relevant. What trumps it is > > functionality. > > > Technical considerations are very relevant if one is doing something > technical, for example developing an iOS app or a maps tile service. > > > > Our maps have to be good everywhere and as far as I know OSM > > is superior in places where there is profit to be made from maps. > > > If you choose to ignore the technical difficulties and half of my earlier > email, then yes, that may be true. > > > > Current maps world wide and historical maps are what we need. How would > you > > use the Apple maps for a map of the Ottoman empire? > > > > Given that our maps service does not support this, and will not any time > soon, this is very off-topic. > > Dan > > -- > Dan Garry > Lead Product Manager, Discovery > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
