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		corford on March 3, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenStreetMap provider CloudMade shuts its doors o... When I got the email that they were shutting down the API at the end of April, the first thing I rushed to check up on was the status of Leaflet.js (which I think had been sponsored by Cloudmade?). Fortunately, it seems it's now sponsored by Mapbox: http://leafletjs.com/2013/11/18/leaflet-0-7-released-plans-f...

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corford on March 3, 2014 | [–]

Probably me reading too much in to the email but I got the feeling that Cloudmade wasn't going to be around for much longer and worried what that would mean for leaflet development.

karussell on March 3, 2014 | | [–]

Ok, true :) this could be indeed the case. E.g. the cloudmade page on wikipedia does not read very good regarding money

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