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Yes, the light in the shown pictures is natural, however the article fails to mention that all of them have a fair amount of post-processing (apart from cropping). A reader inexperienced in the matter is led to believe that if only the composition is right the images will come out of the camera as striking as shown, which isn't true. Good processing is one of the keys to creating pictures with impact. Especially when shooting digital the images out of the box tend to be flat and naturalistic as opposed to stylized or artistic.

Of course there's also derivates of OSM that would be impossible to replace with Gmaps. For instance the topographics maps with detailed path characteristics for offline use for hiking and cycling provided by https://www.openandromaps.org/en

Sounds like a use case for zstd with custom dictionary.