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Re:German OpenStreetMap making map unusable, to protest agai... by faitswulff on Saturday September 08, 2018 @09:34AM (#17940738)
I hope they made sure that their maps weren't being used for critical purposes like rescue operations[0] before doing this?

[0]: https://www.wired.com/2015/05/the-open-source-maps-that-made...

Re:German OpenStreetMap making map unusable, to protest agai... by sabman on Saturday September 08, 2018 @10:35AM (#17940979)
Also Humanitarian Operations are governed by Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team [0] - they have their custom styling [1].

[0] https://www.hotosm.org/ [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_map_style

Re:German OpenStreetMap making map unusable, to protest agai... by maxerickson on Saturday September 08, 2018 @11:07AM (#17941117)
"governed" probably isn't the right word. HOT is a separate organization from OpenStreetMap. They do a lot of work editing OSM and there are people with overlapping involvement.

In addition to running their own tileserver, they also often produce large format maps in QGIS or what not.

Re:German OpenStreetMap making map unusable, to protest agai... by blattimwind on Saturday September 08, 2018 @09:38AM (#17940754)
Only the default style has this; switching styles is literally one click.
Re:German OpenStreetMap making map unusable, to protest agai... by codemusings on Saturday September 08, 2018 @11:09AM (#17941125)
Any company or institution that relies on OSM tiles heavily are caching them anyways because the request cap isn't that high.
Re:German OpenStreetMap making map unusable, to protest agai... by rmc on Sunday September 09, 2018 @06:58AM (#17945332)
Or they are running their own tileserver, generating their own map tiles, from their own local database (this is exactly what openstreetmap.de is doing), and would not be affected by this at all.