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Re:How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers to Challenge Google... by lukeqsee on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @12:39PM (#17022294)
We don't have Places API support, but we definitely are aiming for products from solo devs and smaller businesses at Stadia Maps. We have a few suggestions for places to look when our services have a hole.

For instance, Foursquare has a pretty good places API we've used before.

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Re:How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers to Challenge Google... by dabernathy89 on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @12:42PM (#17022329)
Ah thanks for mentioning Foursquare - I meant to list it. It's another one that has a huge upfront cost for solo devs building a commercial app ($600 / month).
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Re:How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers to Challenge Google... by lukeqsee on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @12:47PM (#17022376)
> It's another one that has a huge upfront cost for solo devs building a commercial app ($600 / month).

Yeah. :(

This problem seems to extend to the whole industry. Everyone charges big bucks to even very small players. We want to solve pieces of that we can, but it's a tough road to build quality databases.

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