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Re:Organic Maps by Aachen on Friday September 01, 2023 @06:15AM (#37348853)
So how do they finance the servers from which you download the sizable map files, if there's no "pay to unlock unlimited downloads" like in OsmAnd?
Re:Organic Maps by balencpp on Friday September 01, 2023 @06:43AM (#37349037)
"Our sponsors - Mythic Beasts ISP provides us two virtual servers with 400 TB/month of free bandwidth to help our users with maps downloads and updates."

On their github README.md.

Re:Organic Maps by hkt on Friday September 01, 2023 @07:07AM (#37349229)
Mythic Beasts are absolutely great, on that note. One of the truly old school hosts in the UK. They pay their employees a share bonus, they're technically excellent, and their services are reliable and well priced. I've been using them for years (since Bytemark got eaten by IOMart) and love them.
Re:Organic Maps by biodranik on Friday September 01, 2023 @07:26AM (#37349379)
We pay it out of pocket or from users' donations.
Re:Organic Maps by ihatehn on Friday September 01, 2023 @03:42PM (#37355342)
Also consider that with Google you have to redownload your area of the map almost constantly since they're online maps, whereas it's only even possible to download a ~100mb map file from OrganicMaps monthly-ish when they release app updates and most people don't update. 100mb per user is nothing.