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I just have to add my voice to the "new Map is Crap" throng. The lack of satellite imagery in my area (only 400 miles from the GC HQ) pretty much renders the maps useless to me. I do hereby echo the call to make google maps available to premium members only. I don't know how many premium memberships there are out there, but judging from the number of premium vs basic cachers I've seen active from my area, I'd have to think the number is somewhere north of 100,000 which would give GC annual revenues of at least $3 million USD not including site advertising, merchandising, etc. I don't see a hell of a lot of costs in your operation either (being personally savy in such things). I also think it is distinctly harsh to suddenly dump 2,000,000 map views per day on an open source provider who is providing a basically free service with practically no income beyond donations. How much of a donation did GC make to OSM, if any, when you decided to dump 2 million map views per day on them? It actually seems that OSM are "traffic shaping" in that the maps that come through GC.com are a **LOT** slower than maps direct from the OSM site. Can't blame them one bit!