Re: Maps' Mapbox free coupon is soon to expire

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

> Maybe it's getting a bit late to think about this, but I just recalled
> that our free coupon for tile access for Mapbox tiles for Maps is about
> to expire (Dec 31, 2017 AFAIR). As I understand it this means we will
> automatically be transferred to a "pay-as-you-go plan" with Mapbox. If
> I recall correctly from the investigation Mattias did in relation to
> the issue where Ingress.com used our (as we had then) tile proxy,
> generating a huge amount of requests, and that when the proxy was shut
> down (it's no longer used) usage when down to around 55 to 65 thousand
> requests per day. If I understand the pricing model from Mapbox
> correctly, this would approximatly correspond to around 30 USD per day
> for our current usage.
>
> So, I'm not sure how we should proceed here, and if we could find some
> sponsor(s) willing to give a helping hand here.

Plus we still would need a policy for GNOME(related) applications that
need map tiles but aren't GNOME maps, e.g. Photos/Shotwell