[talk-au] Nearmap badly out of date

[John Smith]

On 13 May 2011 15:38, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 1:24 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> That's before you consider the resolution, it's so high that railway
>> lines and switching tracks are mapped so accurately people were
>> suggesting to those that make train games they could use OSM data as
>> the basis of their track data for more realistic simulations.
>
> Yeah, I've wondered for a while if people couldn't make interesting
> RTS type games using OSM data. Would be pretty cool to do a
> military/economic simulation on an area that you know...

I think at least 1 flight sim already uses OSM data.