Quote Originally Posted by dong1432 View Post
the reason they don't open the contributors edition to the public is that it's a "contributors" map.
you contribute, you get the map.
you don't contribute, you can f%^k o^f.
guys like you who don't contribute nor willing to expand the map and just try to leech of others are basically the main reason they went to the contributing system.

afaik the map hasn't been sold to anyone. older version get licensed out to papago i believe
We beg to differ from you, we have some well known examples:
TrackSource Projeto Brazil
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Very good project , maps are downloadable for everyone and the forum is full of infos for all users, probably one of the best map for Brazil and users are very active in many forums to give feedback and useful contributes.Updated every month.
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They dont need any comment, we all know them and learnt something from their projects

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Venrut maps, best for Venezuela

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Best for Argentina

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Best for Peru

Free Topo Spain, etc etc , I could continue...
All these are free and open projects, forums are opened for users and they can partecipate,get infos and help, download, to be involved and contribute in a friendly context.
Restrictions ,I guess ,are self-defeating and generate suspects, like we can read above.