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Re:Farewell, Google Maps by voxadam on Thursday July 19, 2018 @07:00PM (#17571093)
You mention being "a few months behind", what is the reason for this lag?
Re:Farewell, Google Maps by MattBlissett on Thursday July 19, 2018 @07:20PM (#17571213)
My apologies, I'm out-of-date with the commercial offerings of OpenMapTiles — I work on an open data project, eligible for OpenMapTiles' free license which has old (currently one year old) tiles.

With a commercial license, the tiles are from 2 July.

I assume the commercial tiles are a few days behind as it's just not worth most people's effort to stay up-to-the-hour — different map services can offer that, this company is making easy self-hosted map tile packages.

The free license is presumably using older data to encourage an upgrade.