[Wikimedia-l] TomTom does a Britannica

[Yaroslav M. Blanter]

On Tue, 29 May 2012 13:23:25 +0100, Tom Morris wrote:
> On 29 May 2012 13:08, Anthony <wikimail at 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