Oddly, I checked a family home in Missouri the other day.
On Google maps, it's set about 1 mile from where it should be... and on the wrong side of the Missouri river. It shows roads where there are none, and is thoroughly unusable. UPS etc don't deliver to the house because it's not on their navigation systems...
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&safe=off&q=google+maps+336+rose...
Of course, OSM is more accurate than any others - compare the link above, with this link, showing a more accurate - but incomplete - map:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=38.396220356226&lon=-91.0328784584999&...
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On 7 June 2012 11:57, Marcin Cieslak saper@saper.info wrote:
Yaroslav M. Blanter putevod@mccme.ru wrote:
On Tue, 29 May 2012 13:23:25 +0100, Tom Morris wrote:
On 29 May 2012 13:08, Anthony wikimail@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.
I can confirm this too - even in a large city of Kiev my coworkers tried to explain to each other how to reach something using very inaccurate Google Map. We tried openstreetmap.org (they didn't now it even exists) and we all were amazed by the level of detail the city was described. Even all traffic lights and bus stops were in place as they should.
//Saper
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