[Talk-us] Why does the USA currently lag in OSM map quality?

Mike N niceman at att.net
Tue Feb 17 21:24:16 UTC 2015


On 2/17/2015 3:30 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
> A pile of automatically imported or collected data is really not all
> that interesting or complete.
> I think in the USA the way forward involves finding user communities not
> served by other maps (e.g. Bear Boxes, above).

   I've found that after a quorum of parks has the typical level of OSM 
detail added, they become quite interesting to community recreational 
planners because no other map: government or Google matches it.  But 
this is only a microscopic slice of users in comparison to consumers of 
trip routing data.




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