As someone who bolts routes, helps to write guidebooks and gets paid for translating them, I am well aware of the harm that "free" topos can do. Both my wife and I worked for years in SW development and we are against free topos, free downloads etc. However, I use 27crags as a repository for new route info for routes/boulders that we've developed, simply because it is a useful "in advance" way of divulging info before a regular guidebook is developed. All the people who have such sites, whether or not they get advertising income, find sooner or later that they have to provide info on the area guidebooks, if for no other reason than you need proper maps and descriptions to find boulders and crags. As Richie said, 27crags is one of the better sites of its type. ciao Peter