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The author is also the founder and owner of a local Google-like company (search, email, maps, media, etc.), that's where he gets the funding for Windy.

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And their maps are far superior to Google if you are looking for a map experience. I.e. you want to see a map, understand it, use it. With Google you get a grey blob of nothing where you can see a plotted route and reviews for your destination. It's useful, but very different.

Indeed. Topographic maps with route planning for cross-country skiing, road biking or mountain biking. (in addition to usual car navigation). Offline capabilities, weather conditions along the route, on-line cameras etc.

https://www.windy.com/maps?map

Meanwhile, Windy's maps use OpenStreetMap data, but don't give OSM the required attribution.

That's against OSM's licence and seriously not cool.

They will fix it: https://community.windy.com/topic/3353/map-correction/15

They have not fixed it for almost 3 years - except for a really really tiny attribution only in web that too almost invisible. I challenge you to find it.

This is seriously not cool.

> I challenge you to find it.

Trivial - it's in the bottom right corner. It's easy to find if you're looking for it. The text is very small and has a bit less contrast than the one on Google Maps.

They've fixed it in the web, mobile will be fixed in the new release according to the linked comment. Maybe threaten to sue them if this is a priority for you.

From https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright/en

> How to credit OpenStreetMap

They also steal the lightning data too... https://community.windy.com/topic/6865/lightning-tracker/3

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