[Osmf-talk] Death and evolution

[Ed Freyfogle]

2014-09-26 13:24 GMT+01:00 Oleksiy Muzalyev <oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch>:

> For example, Google introduced Map Maker. It does not work well yet, if at
> all (here is the article
> http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/google-map-maker-vs-openstreetmap-id-editor/
> ).
>


Google map maker works very well at it's goal of improving coverage in some
markets, for example India. It is widely used (both by volunteers and
people paid directly or via sponsored events) and their maps have much more
coverage than OSM, particularly POIs
http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/#14/17.3275/78.3929&num=4&mt0=mapnik&mt1=google-map&mt2=bing-map&mt3=nokia-map


ciao,
Ed
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