On Tue, 29 May 2012 13:23:25 +0100, Tom Morris wrote:
On 29 May 2012 13:08, Anthony
<wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
The difference is that Wikipedia is usable in the
real world,
whereas
OSM, for the most part, is not.
Yes, TomTom is dying. But it's because of Google, not because of
OSM.
I'd say OSM is beginning to be pretty usable in the real world. It's
usable for a lot of things where there's not so much commercial
interest in the map data...
From my personal experience: Twice per year I travel into middle-size
towns of Russia, usually visiting several of then on a single trip.
Google maps suck badly; Google's Russian counterpart, Yandex Maps, are
better, but they suck as well; TomTom is nonexistent, and OSM had for
all places I visited in 2010 (with one exception - for the record, this
was the city of Tayga, Kemerovo Region in Siberia) reasonably good maps,
often with reliable house numbering.
Cheers
Yaroslav