[aprssig] Google Maps API Change Has "Broken" findu.com

[Paul Bramscher]

Greetings--

The same (bait-and-switch?) Google pricing model affected pskreporter.info:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?_escaped_fragment_=topic/psk-reporter/g1GhYAeMpLU#!topic/psk-reporter/g1GhYAeMpLU

...and someone dropped this URL which may be of some use here:
https://switch2osm.org/

It didn't take Philip long to make the switch to OpenStreetMap on pskreporter.info.

As a heavy user of both Google Maps and OSM, I find that OSM often has more detail, especially of parks and trails.  Off-topic here, I use Locus Map on my Android phone while biking or kayaking, and plot the GPS coordinates.  I then export my trails to my APRS-dedicated PC and use a half-baked Linux app. called GPX Viewer to view my plots on the desktop w/OpenStreetMaps.

73, KD0KZE / Paul

> On August 22, 2018 at 8:07 PM steve at dimse.com wrote:
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> > On Aug 22, 2018, at 8:45 PM, R Kirk <isobar at verizon.net> wrote:
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> > Ah, Google and 'corporate greed' in the same breath. O Tempora o mores. To be fair, they did disavow "Don't be evil" a couple of years ago.
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> Yes, they did. No surprise there.
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> > Is there an alternative to slow demise? Different map base, maybe involving implausible major reprogramming effort? Or was it inevitable that  findu was going to demise eventually anyway, post Dimse?
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> I've looked briefly at the alternatives, and none of them seem like an easy and free replacement. I'm not going to say never, which is why I'm spending the server saving account on keeping it going rather than taking a cruise ;-) but it'd take more motivation than I feel now. I'd really like to see it make March 2020 though, for the twentieth anniversary.
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> If I do run out of findU money, I'd probably put the servers, domain names, and code up on ebay with a starting bid of $10 in case anyone wants it. And maybe two people would want it badly, get into a bidding war, and I could take that cruise!!!
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> Steve K4HG
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