[Talk-ca] Google copies GeoBase

[simon at mungewell.org]

>  Pretty terrible effort on the part of Google, let's do
> better with OSM.
>

I'd just to add that the 'new' Google map of the Crowsnest Pass is
significantly better than it was before. No more random 'roads which are
really cutlines' and 'roads which magically cross creeks'. Whoo Whoo....

Holly Sh*t they did Street View too....!

That said the OSM map has the new subdivisions as soon as they roads are
drivable. Plus it has the 'Frank Slide Interpretive Center' (a major
government funded tourist attaction) the Health Center in the right place.

Hint for Google, they're not there:
http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Blairmore,+Alberta&sll=49.891235,-97.15369&sspn=31.844519,56.513672&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Blairmore,+Division+No.+15,+Alberta&ll=49.605343,-114.433765&spn=0.015574,0.027595&z=15

Simon