Data's only half the equation, building up a service with all of the features to what you need costs $. From the Switch to OSM site "Serving your own maps is a fairly intensive task. Depending on the size of the area you’re interested in serving and the traffic you expect the system requirements will vary. In general, requirements will range from 10-20GB of storage, 4GB of memory, and a modern dual-core processor for a city-sized region to 300GB+ of fast storage, 24GB of memory, and a quad-core processor for the entire planet."
Don't get me wrong OSM is a fantastic initiative. It will be very interesting to see if a slew of competitive services spring up in the map 'service' arena, using OSM data.
Don't get me wrong OSM is a fantastic initiative. It will be very interesting to see if a slew of competitive services spring up in the map 'service' arena, using OSM data.