As an OpenStreetMap contributor I really appreciate the proper attribution you have in the bottom right, rather than hiding it behind a button like Mapbox and some others do - thanks!
There’s no attribution that I can see on the second embedded map on the page (on mobile). A honking great Radar logo, but no OSM attribution.
This trend of “our branding takes priority over the required attribution for the free map data we’re using, but hey, they’re a little nonprofit so can’t afford to sue us” really ticks me off. Mapbox started it as a calculated move, and since then others have followed claiming it’s “the standard”.
Their geofencing API seems to advertise tracking users. It seems to provide some kind of metadata storage alongside a geofencing API. My guess is that some websites are tracking their users though this API.
I haven't dug into it much further, but if their API is used for tracking, it should stay on the list.
Edit: looks like they provide a dashboard to follow the location history of any user using their API. Yeah, no, I'm adding this to my personal blacklist just in case.
The example map of New York on the linked page has rather odd labeled places and street names. At the default zoom, it’s marked up as if New York, Hoboken, Weehawken, etc are literal points marked by tiny circles. This is particularly silly in the New York area, which is a continuous gridded metropolitan area.
Then, when zooming in, you have to zoom very very far in before street names show up. This makes a map zoomed slightly less far in mostly useless, because you can’t tell where you are. I realize that people mostly don’t navigate by map any more, but if you are literally selling map tiles, presumably mostly not tied to the end user’s GPS, then whoever is looking at the map would like to know where they’re looking. For example, in Manhattan, the actual useful coordinates are the cross-streets, and the map is not very helpful without the street names.
Google is the gold standard, but our coverage is quite good in the US. We incorporate a mix of open and commercial datasets both for POI and address data.
More details in the post, but Google starts at $7 per 1K map loads and $5 per 1K geocoding API requests, whereas Radar starts at $0.50 per 1K for both. We've roughly been helping our enterprise customers cut their maps bill in half.
https://github.com/matkoniecz/illegal-use-of-OpenStreetMap