2012/5/29 Anthony wikimail@inbox.org:
...if you wanna go this way, I wonder if you "go to en.wikipedia.org and just use it" if you want to plant tomatoes in your garden. I know I wouldn't.
I wouldn't use Britannica either. The context of the article is GPS navigation for automobiles.
I'm sorry, I don't quite get it. When you said that Wikipedia was usable in the real world, I assumed you meant that you can use Wikipedia as an encyclopedia for reference in different aspects of daily life. Now you're saying that you can somehow use Wikipedia for GPS navigation for automobiles?
One thing I do have to admit is that my experience with OSM has mostly been in the United States, which I hear is a place that OSM has been especially poor, and a place where Google (which is what I do use) is especially good.
That appears to be the case. In Romania, as well as most Eastern European countries and some Asian countries, the Google development model is _identical_ to the one used by OSM: crowdsourcing.
Before Google Mapper, the number of roads in Romania on Google maps was a staggering... 3. Now the number of paved roads is indeed better than OSM (due mainly to better satellite imagery), but the level of details doesn't even come close, and geolocation is at street level for both.
Strainu