<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">This is what's in it for me - compare:<br><br><span><<a target="_blank"
href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=52.190651,0.077049&daddr=Grantchester+Rd&hl=en&geocode=%3BFdRiHAMdNSwBAA&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=0&sz=18&sll=52.191479,0.07692&sspn=0.002529,0.006974&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=52.191279,0.07713&spn=0.004874,0.013947&z=17">http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=52.190651,0.077049&daddr=Grantchester+Rd&hl=en&geocode=%3BFdRiHAMdNSwBAA&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=0&sz=18&sll=52.191479,0.07692&sspn=0.002529,0.006974&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=52.191279,0.07713&spn=0.004874,0.013947&z=17</a>></span><br><br>with<br><br><span><<a target="_blank"
href="http://data.giub.uni-bonn.de/openrouteservice/index.php?start=0.0762464,52.1901535&end=0.0764609,52.1922055&pref=Fastest&lang=en">http://data.giub.uni-bonn.de/openrouteservice/index.php?start=0.0762464,52.1901535&end=0.0764609,52.1922055&pref=Fastestā©=en</a>></span><br><br>and you'll see that Google not only takes you 4 miles out of the way, it also takes you on a motorway which is a definite no-no when on a bike!<br><br>Donald<br><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Someoneelse <lists@mail.atownsend.org.uk><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Ken Guest <ken@linux.ie><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> talk@openstreetmap.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, 1 May, 2009 16:40:35<br><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-talk-ie] open street map - what's in it for you?<br></font><br>Ken Guest wrote:<br>> My own answer was a little less vague ;-)<br>> <br><br>and mine:<br><br>My original reason was that there's a footpath bridge between two <br>villages near me that I could never remember where it was, and that you <br>can't see until you're on it, and no-one, (including the online mapping <br>portals and the OS) has the area accurately mapped.<br><br>Google has roads as they were a couple of years ago and some random <br>tracks with no information about access. The OS has either field <br>boundaries from the 1940s updated with some 70s-era information or white <br>space (presumably because it was being opencasted at the time that they <br>overflew and they knew that their data was temporary) overlaid with <br>footpaths that must have been drawn by someone in the last century just <br>after they'd got back from
the pub, because there are some that go <br>through blocks of flats and people's houses, and many that don't align <br>with the (in many cases correct) 1940s footpath markings.<br><br>However, I'd also like to use a map that knows that one of the motorway <br>junctions nearest my house actually exists (junction 29a of the M1 <br>FWIW), and I'd like to use directions that don't tell me to turn right <br>off a flyover over a dual carriageway where there isn't actually a junction!<br><br>OSM have all of these correct; Google's (Tele Atlas?) data has both of <br>these last two wrong and another (Navteq I think) implementation has the <br>last wrong.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>talk mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org" href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org">talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk"
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