[Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

[Russ Nelson]

Steve Coast writes:
 > Waze, last time I looked, was 5 times larger than OSM. Today, probably 10.

Nobody ever tells me about Waze.

 > Today it's hard to convince any consumer they should do so over
 > google or waze.

Go to anybody who travels through bad cell coverage. Show them OSMAnd
on a Nexus 7. "And it will do routing through the boonies."

Explain that OSMAnd doesn't need an expensive cell data
connection. OSMAnd has gotten MUCH easier to use lately with
downloaded data. That's it's strongest feature.

 > If you want people to use the map, it needs addressing.

Yes. And then ... we can kill Garmin because we have as-good maps on
better hardware. And then we can kill tile-based cell data maps
because we have "infinite" detail maps with no cell data connection.

OSMAnd running on a Nexus 7 is better and cheaper (capex and opex)
than anything else on the market. If only we had addressing.

And then we need to make it easy to edit the map through OSMAnd. It
has a POI capability, which I haven't (yet) used, mostly because
everywhere I usually go is already mapped. :)

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