On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 08:08:21AM -0400, Anthony wrote:
The difference is that Wikipedia is usable in the real world, whereas OSM, for the most part, is not.
OSMAndroid is fully usable for satnav in the real world. It includes enough data on streets, buildings and POI's to find what you need. You can download maps so you don't need a network connection for maps; and recent upgrades also allow one to do routing on the local CPU, so you can use your android phone just like a tomtom, except with OSM map data ;-)
When eg. playing tourist in Italy, this worked perfectly for me.
I'm going to say that this myth is busted ;-)
sincerely, Kim Bruning