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Investigate if we could use OpenStreetMaps instead of Google maps #38

Open oteo opened 7 years ago

oteo commented 7 years ago

Legal team has told us that Google Maps uses closed/proprietary data and OpenStreetMaps is an open data alternative. Mozilla has a general policy preference for using open data projects, so unless there is a compelling business reason why OSM will not work for our project, we should go with that.

Legal team asks if we can take a look at OSM and let them know our thoughts...

samgiles commented 7 years ago

Maybe Mapbox is a good alternative, pretty sure they use OSM data.

On 27 Jan 2017 15:03, "Maria Angeles Oteo" notifications@github.com wrote:

Legal team has told us that Google Maps uses closed/proprietary data and OpenStreetMaps is an open data alternative. Mozilla has a general policy preference for using open data projects, so unless there is a compelling business reason why OSM will not work for our project, we should go with that.

Legal team asks if we can take a look at OSM and let them know our thoughts...

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wilsonpage commented 7 years ago

I suggest we backlog this until post pilot. We're launching a prototype to a very small audience. I'm sure legal have much bigger concerns with our project aside from the chosen mapping solution including some closed proprietary code. Let's try not to get hung-up on small details at this stage :)

wilsonpage commented 7 years ago

I spotted react-native-maps accepts tile URL overrides. https://github.com/airbnb/react-native-maps#using-a-custom-tile-overlay