7bicycles [he/him]

Yeah it is but that’s not what I was getting at. You can try to explain things to people in the most basic way, say that a server talking to another server is like sending a letter. Latter concept is something everybody including literal children is conceptually familiar with. You do not need to know how the post sorts their shit, or distributes it or even how to properly adress a letter to understand how this works.

Except replace “letter” with “e-mail” and “institution or person” with “server” and people will act like this is impossible to attain knowledge requiring years of study. And I don’t mean in the abstract, I mean in the literal sense I have tried to use that specific analogy to explain how 2 servers talk, with no more depth than that, and it regularly fails

I don’t think this is as much as specialized knowledge issue as it is that normal people are frightingly technologically illiterate considering how much is computers. I mean this is not a hard concept to grasp at laymans architectural level

They pay for OSM Data because they’re making profits off of it you mean

Regular OSM doesn’t have elevation data as well as many other info that mapy does provide.

I’m not blaming you but whose fault is that? Add that shit to OSM! Don’t work for the assholes coasting off of FOSS labour of other people, subvert them!

Just use OSM then what the hell