Re:DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps
by Aeolun on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @04:57PM
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Not much at all. In fact, since the tiles are only generated once, they could stick a CDN in front and never have to worry about anything but data transfer costs afterwards.
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That CDN isn't free all the content and traffic overhead has costs, CDN charges you for each request, and every byte sent. On a small (under a million users a day) application it may not be that much... but even ten of millions of users a day, it costs a LOT
Hell, why do you think google invested so much time into image compression tech to save a few bytes here and there.
Re:DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps
by Brakenshire on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @06:08PM
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I doubt it’s much, the whole OSM infrastructure used to be handled as a favour by one of the London universities. I doubt DDG Maps is operating at significantly higher scale, especially once you take into account they just have to serve static data.