<div>Many here fail to see one of the weaknesses of GMM, maybe because they don't live in the areas not covered. GMM is not editable over the entire world, there are countries where all contributions will be verified (how?) before accepted on the live map, and countries that are completely closed for edits. A couple of months ago I tried to register on GMM to see how the tools was and completely failed, why? The register page said that my area was locked for edits (showing a completely blank map of the area), so I started to browse the help pages, which confirmed it, GMM is not editable worldwide, AND your ability to contribute are depending on your registered home country.</div>
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<div>OSM on the other hand are open to everybody to contribute everywhere from anywhere. I heard some say that you are limited to only a few types of roads and POIs in GMM, OSM have no limit in theory, though people are encouraged to settle on standard tags (which we can alter the definitions of or add more if we like), and have more types of data rendered on the live map if desired.</div>
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<div>I think that the limitations of GMM and the diversity of OSM will work as benefits and limits for both, some will be drawn to GMM while other to OSM, of various reasons.</div>
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<div>Instead of bashing on about Google do this and Google do that, why not try to see how we can improve OSM standing, so that more people will be drawn to OSM? Get more apps to use OSM, improve global coverage, get more usage of the wikipedia extension, whatever that make people aware of our qualities.</div>