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Set up a server to help render up to date OpenStreetMap map tiles: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Servers/Tile_Rendering

Usually needs dedicated servers, but you should be able to contribute if you use a beefy VM

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Hi! I'm the OSM Foundation board chairperson. We have a tile server running on AWS, generously sponsored by Amazon. It's quite a big machine, and the budget mentioned would only pay for a few months of runtime. It's currently one of the two tile servers we have in North America, and the fastest of the two by far.

https://hardware.openstreetmap.org/servers/palulukon.openstr...

https://prometheus.openstreetmap.org/d/Ea3IUVtMz/host-overvi...

https://prometheus.openstreetmap.org/d/wyyzhZKMk/tile-render...

Hetzner also has great servers for a budget, maybe they would be up to sponsor one or two servers for your project. Not a real cost for them, but great for your project. Just an idea.

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