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Re:New Map APIs from Google by dheera on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @01:07PM (#37325311)
> Unlike OSM you don't have (legit) access to the raw tiles

Google does serve raw tiles, not free of course

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/maps-static...

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Re:New Map APIs from Google by joshstrange on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @01:12PM (#37325378)
That’s not really “raw tiles” in the OSM or other 3rd party map provider sense. Especially since you can’t save/cache them really (and you can’t use them with something like leaflet legally)
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Re:New Map APIs from Google by dheera on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @03:52PM (#37328010)
Save them to the blockchain then, they can't do anything about it.
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