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+lee+lane,+MO&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x87d9437774ae90b1:0xe097361aeae6e007,336+Rose+Lee+Ln,+Union,+MO+63084,+USA&gl=uk&ei=C4rQT_bNH8TZ8APbgeHRDA&oi=geocode_result&ved=0CBUQ8gEwAA 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&zoom=18 Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Disclaimer viewable at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Email_disclaimer Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk On 7 June 2012 11:57, Marcin Cieslak <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yaroslav M. Blanter <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, 29 May 2012 13:23:25 +0100, Tom Morris wrote: > >> On 29 May 2012 13:08, Anthony <[email protected]> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
