But there are also plenty of applications where Google's higher quality doesn't offer a significant advantage. At my last job I started to negotiate with Googl

But there are also plenty of applications where Google's higher quality doesn't offer a significant advantage. At my last job I started to negotiate with Google about their (old) new maps pricing. They kept pointing to features that made no difference for our application. We needed Ok maps and decent forward and reverse geocoding. We were in their free tier, but needeed to find a solution for when we outgrew it, because their pricing was way way too high for our business model. I left that company, bust if nothing else, this new pricing will further delay the day that they consider replacing Google maps. For new projects though, I'd probably skip google maps altogether, or at least use them in such a way that the client-side code would be totally provider independent.