It costs money to host something like that. You want low latency, real-time routing and tile-rendering? Even more money. Sure, it could be funded by donations or something like that, but I'm not holding my breath.

[–] tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Could be self hosted

[–] thejevans@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you're willing to spend all the money on setting up and running a server, why not just spend way less money to get more phone storage and use OSM?

[–] tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Setting up a server just for this is clearly overkill, but if you already have a homeserver it would be great to be able to deploy the backend. Sadly there is no such thing currently

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I totally agree. Running a server on a home machine that's already running 24/7 is trivial. I don't know why this guy is acting like it's a big deal. I've got a $100 mini-PC running multiple servers already. What's one more?

[–] thejevans@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It's not a BIG deal. I self-host a ton of stuff. It's just a bigger deal than spending a bit more for phone storage for the vast majority of people.

[–] tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is true for literally every selfhosted app

[–] thejevans@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

I agree. Hence why I wondered why that would be an acceptable option compared to simply changing OPs posted requirements for far less cost and headache.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago

Not necessarily. Most people in the US are locked into some kind of ridiculous contract that makes swapping/upgrading their phone a pain in the ass and a financial burden. To be fair, these same types of people probably lack the ability to run a home server so maybe my point is moot 😅

[–] wmassingham@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That doesn't have anything to do with whether it's open-source or not.

[–] thejevans@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

The correlation is high.

[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What is the cost of hosting a server like this? I'd imagine someone could cloud host it at a cost of $10/mo and sell the online service at $1-$2/mo, which would take very few users to turn a profit. If the code is FOSS, some people would be willing to pay for the service.

[–] thejevans@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

https://wcedmisten.fyi/post/self-hosting-osm/

The main problem is that this type of service requires way more RAM and disk space than most other popular self-hosted services. You CAN do it, it's just not practical.