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Still too expensive. Why not just sell it at the prevailing rate per GB for residential IP bandwidth? A thousand max.

The joke is that you can already download it for free, no donation or bandwidth reimbursement needed

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm

I guess since it's posted to osm.town Mastodon, this is assumed to be known. Was surprised to see it without context here on HN; I can understand the confusion. Apparently most people here are already aware that one can download the full OpenStreetMap data without scraping

In your opinion, profits from selling data should go to OpenStreetMap contributors or OpenStreetMap Foundation?

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