[OSM-talk] Google Maps - OSM comparison

Hakan Tandogan hakan at gurkensalat.com
Fri Nov 28 10:18:22 GMT 2008


On Fri, November 28, 2008 10:00, Bernhard Zwischenbrugger wrote:
> Hi all
>
>
> I made a comparison Google Maps - OSM for all capitals.
> http://lamp2.fhstp.ac.at/~lbz/beispiele/ws2008/capitals/index.php

This is really cool ;-)

It shows how OSM is especially good in areas that are commercially not
really interesting.

> Some cities like Havanna have wrong coordinates. No idea why the
> namefinder thinks that Havanna in the USA is more important, than Havanna
> in Cuba.

Care to share your source? Do you make a namefinder request on each page
or do you have a stored list of coordinates somewhere?


Regards,
Hakan

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