[Xastir] Mapquest Option going away

Liz edodd at billiau.net
Thu Jul 14 03:49:25 PDT 2016


On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 19:05:56 -0700
David Ranch <xastir at trinnet.net> wrote:

> Not that I would do it personally but maybe some HAMs would be
> wanting to buy a MapQuests key to continue using their title
> service?  $0 for 15k transactions a month; $99 for 30k
> transactions/mo, $199 for $75k transactions/mo  If the MapQuest code
> is removed, that option is gone. Maybe Xastir doesn't want t to
> support 3rd party commercial offerings which is a fine decision to
> make but some Xastir users might be bummed with removing the code all
> together.
> 
> Just asking..
> 
> --David
> KI6ZHD
>

There remains an offer to use map tiles from fosm.org
The code may be reusable for that purpose.

Liz
VK2XSE


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