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Oh yeah, great idea. Done!

Fun game! Can I suggest adding a licence file to Github so people know what they can do with the repo.

I remember looking at that fork when the whole licencing thing went down a couple of years ago, but it was unclear how much, if any support it would have. Looks like the project is doing ok.

Like many others no doubt, I invested heavily into the mapbox-gl-js library (pre 2.0). I was able to build amazing value on top of that library including a routing voice navigation app for an aged care facility that is used to this day 24/7/365. It was a very sad day when they changed their licencing model to lock in vendors and I had to walk away from that investment of my time and effort. Luckily I had also worked and contributed to OpenLayers and Leaflet, so with significant effort was able to move my clients to those platforms.

I guess we now have some more insight into why this occurred.

> "In order to use most Services, you must register for or authenticate into a Mapbox account. When you use our application program interfaces (APIs), including our SDK Registry/Downloads API, each request to an API must include one of your account's unique API keys."

We should ask the long term question, what if QGIS and other FLOSS products had broad support and significant resources flowing into them that ESRI has?

The way I think about it, often the same people, certainly people with the similar skillsets are working on all these products, most of them just follow the money.

I think one big missing piece of the puzzle for governments to assess these products is a governance and risk model associated with these products. But software engineers generally don't give a crap about governance, so we need more people who do care about that to invest in OSS. I'm seeing some movement on this like the Github Sponsors initiative.

Stay away from ESRI (ess-ray) - I should get that printed on a t-shirt.

ESRI centralise power, lock you into their technology, and IMHO a digital twin should be doing the opposite. Don't believe the sales BS about ESRI having "free" software, read the fine print, ArcGIS AINT FREE.

IMHO a Digital Twin should be something for the people, by the people! So please stop paying proprietary systems like ESRI and incentivising them to stifle innovation and increases barriers to entry.

If you want to see local jobs, growth and innovation then invest in OpenSource software like OSM (Open Street Map) and QGIS and other Open GIS products.

> "Who doesn't just survive but win?"

A finite mindset?

> "I want to take you back to early 2000 ..."

Does the world still look like the early 2000s?

I see these articles a lot, and always wonder why people go it alone. Can anyone link to a discussion about a distributed community run firewall? Does such a thing exist? If so, please comment.

Me too, Australia.

Interesting that Windy uses a version from 2018. (v1.4)