I recently travelled in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro thanks to the maps of Lambertus (OSM). We never got lost and I only had to make some few coorections (roundabouts, etc) and add a road. we would never had found our way without OSM and the good work of Lambertus.<div>
<br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Lambertus <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:osm@na1400.info" target="_blank">osm@na1400.info</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Gert, the same problems you attribute to OSM are valid for TomTom (TeleAtlas) as well.<br>
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But don't believe me, I provide OSM Garmin maps for almost 5 years now, so I'm probably 'too forgiving with my "baby"'. It's the users of these maps that disagree with you.<br>
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A few recent quotes from OSM Garmin map users who emailed to say thanks:<br>
"I travelled for 40 days in 7 different countries in South America abd found the Garmin Maps very helpful."<br>
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"I was driving last week through the netherlands and it went very well! Thanks for your support."<br>
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The person of the last quote also notified me of an erroneous turn restriction, which has been fixed in the next update only two weeks later. For free. I guess TomTom does this much better, no?<br>
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Gert, please try to contribute in a positive way. The project really won't get better with non-constructive criticisms. Perhaps you are simply happier with a commercial TomTom map? We will certainly be happier without the constant negative vibes.<br>
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In interesting read on personalities and OpenSource projects: <a href="http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=66" target="_blank">http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/<u></u>?p=66</a><div class="im HOEnZb"><br>
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On 30-5-2012 17:21, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen wrote:<br>
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TomTom is right, OSM is still a immature product.<br>
That may change, but it isn't yet. But for a few Garmins<br>
serious routing on OSM is a hazardous enterprise.<br>
Even in the Netherlands, one of the countries with<br>
a high completion rate, road classification is NOT<br>
consistent, so are the deafault traffic rules that go with it.<br>
A router may find a route, but that is it. No comfort,<br>
no lanes, no direction signs, no traffic lights, and no<br>
obstruction warnings.<br>
Many roads (albethem small ones) are still marked pedestrian,<br>
and inhibit a car router to reach destination.<br>
Cycle roads are tagged inconsistently or plain faulty, and there<br>
are many ,many real errors. At the time, before OSMF<br>
told me to stop correcting the map for something as trivial<br>
as a license, I found errors on every 20 roads on average.<br>
Not all fatal, but enough to make me turn to Google<br>
Navigon or TomTom to get me at my destination.<br>
Those who state the contrary are too forgiving with their "baby".<br>
And yes as Greg says, you may correct the errors, but when you're done<br>
correcting the error, you do not need OSM anymore to get there !!!<br>
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Regards,<br>
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Gert<br>
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