I'm not so sure highlighting the errors or omissions of Google Map Maker is productive or would even convince people to switch to OSM. First of all, Google Map Maker is user-generated so the counter-argument would be: GO FIX IT YOURSELF. (That's a common argument used in Wikipedia.)<br>
<br>Second, we have plenty of errors in our data ourselves; and certainly much more omissions especially when compared to urban areas outside Metro Manila for which there are high-res satellite imagery in Google Maps. We're stuck with Yahoo! which has only three hi-res areas in the Philippines that I know of.<br>
<br>So let's not compare Google Map Maker data with OSM data. Let's just concentrate in improving our own and convincing other people to contribute without bringing down other projects.<br><br><br>As for Google Map Maker itself, I've blogged about it plenty of times and often with respect to OSM. Let me pimp out a few of my posts for those who have not yet read my blog. :-D<br>
<br><a href="http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com/posts/google_map_maker_osm">http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com/posts/google_map_maker_osm</a><br>(First post about Google Map Maker in general)<br><br><a href="http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com/posts/google_dumps_navteq_opens_map_maker">http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com/posts/google_dumps_navteq_opens_map_maker</a><br>
(Post when Google Map Maker was opened up to the Philippines)<br><br><a href="http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com/posts/google_map_maker_philippine_launch">http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com/posts/google_map_maker_philippine_launch</a><br>
(My report when I attended the Google Map Maker launch in Makati Shangri-La)<br><br><br>And to further rile things up. There's actually a THIRD crowd-sourcing project to create road maps of the Philippines and it was launched last October (I think): Wikimapia BETA. Check out their map of the Makati CBD: <a href="http://wikimapia.org/beta/#lat=14.5565648&lon=121.0221934&z=16&l=0&m=w&v=1">http://wikimapia.org/beta/#lat=14.5565648&lon=121.0221934&z=16&l=0&m=w&v=1</a><br>
<br>While Wikimapia's data scheme is structured like Google's, it's far less "rich" than either Google Map Maker or OSM. But one advantage of Wikimapia BETA is the fact that you get tool-tips as you hover your mouse over places. This is definitely one thing you can't do with any non-editing OSM application as far as I know.<br>
<br>I plan to blog about Wikimapia Beta sometime in the near future.<br><br><br>Regards,<br>Eugene<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 4:00 PM, maning sambale <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com">emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">@ eugene,<br>
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Wow! This is something to blog about! Keep it coming Ianlopez your the man!<br>
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On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:54 PM, ian lopez <<a href="mailto:ian_lopez_1115@yahoo.com">ian_lopez_1115@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Not only are they stealing our ish, they are not good "faultcheckers", as I<br>
> found out barely an hour ago:<br>
><br>
> $ Where's the island that has "Hospicio de San Jose" on it? (OSM has the<br>
> island, Google "sunk" it)<br>
> $ D Romualdez, Sr. is "part" of Natividad Almeda-Lopez<br>
> $ The Uniliver Philippines complex in Paco is being refered to its "old"<br>
> name<br>
> $ They don't know where Robinson's Otis is (recently mapped on OSM, though<br>
> under a landuse=retail tag)<br>
> $ They haven't realize that Phil. Normal University has an annex (just a<br>
> walk away, in front of the main campus)<br>
> $ They don't have the acces roads within (most of) PGH<br>
> $ They ignore certain streams that "we" have<br>
> $ The last time I passed by Cash & Carry, I believe that it became a mall.<br>
> (recently)<br>
> $ Misspellings and certain misinformation<br>
> $ They forgot where Mandarin Oriental Manila is (or they haven't got a clue<br>
> what is that place)<br>
> $ There is no U-turn overpass on C5 (going to Bonifacio Global CIty<br>
> $ No update on the Bonifacio Global City area (they retained the old street<br>
> plan) except for Serendra<br>
> $ Eastwood City looks "half-empty" in Google, seav's coverage pwns everyone<br>
> $ Borders are hopelessly and foolishly inaccurate<br>
> $ San Pablo City and Santa Cruz (in Laguna) are either woefully incomplete<br>
> or totally ignored, other places are mostly blank except for certain major<br>
> areas (a certain major area is Metro Manila)<br>
><br>
> and come on, with too much restrictions in its mapamker, I'd be better off<br>
> with the tried, tested, and easy-to-fix OSM.<br>
><br>
> --- On Thu, 12/4/08, Jim Morgan <<a href="mailto:jim@datalude.com">jim@datalude.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> From: Jim Morgan <<a href="mailto:jim@datalude.com">jim@datalude.com</a>><br>
> Subject: Re: [talk-ph] Google making moves ...<br>
> To: "OSM" <<a href="mailto:talk-ph@openstreetmap.org">talk-ph@openstreetmap.org</a>><br>
> Date: Thursday, December 4, 2008, 3:33 PM<br>
><br>
> I can kind of see why Google is targeting Philippines and other developing<br>
> countries. Its basically the same reason as we're doing Openstreetmap:<br>
> because there is no good online map available. In HK there are a couple, so<br>
> there is not as much need for<br>
> another one. If you look at OSM for HK there's<br>
> very little there.<br>
><br>
> I'm not sure that they're poaching contributors from a Creative Commons<br>
> project. Do you have any information on this? However I'd be interested to<br>
> see where they got their data from. Of course they're a rich corporation and<br>
> can afford to pay for it. But it seems odd that the coverage of their data<br>
> is<br>
> very similar to OSM -- mainly Metro Manila and not much beyond that. It<br>
> seems to<br>
> correspond roughly with their coverage of high res photography.<br>
><br>
> Jim<br>
><br>
> <a href="mailto:sorabsuperstar@web.de">sorabsuperstar@web.de</a> wrote, On Thursday, December 04, 2008 02:14 PM:<br>
>> I did now know about that project of google yet.<br>
>> ...and I am pretty confused and annoyed about google...AGAIN!<br>
>> I mean what shall this be good for? Certainly not for the greater good:<br>
>> Poaching contributors from a creative commons project, in order to fill in<br>
> their own shortcommings in maping developing<br>
> countries ....and commercializing<br>
> their contributions then for free.<br>
>> Because this is exactly what they a shooting for. Only this! Check google<br>
> mapmaker in well maped areas like Europe or North America. There is NOTHING!<br>
> Its<br>
> only in countries like Philippines and Vietnam.<br>
>> They saw that open communities do a good job in maping the white patches<br>
> on the world map, and now they are trying to "steal" it.<br>
>> If they'd put this all under an open license lice CC or GPL, it would<br>
> be fine.<br>
>> But this way ...<br>
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