[OSM-talk] Google Maps - OSM comparison

[ビカス ヤダワ (vikas yadav)]

Hi all,

Im surveying Gurgaon and New Delhi. I'd like to add that Google Maps is
drawing based on satellite images of the roads. Here, we are having massive
road shiftings, fly over consturctions and new roads or deletions. The
latest google earth images are still more than a year old. While, in just 2
months, I have to resruvey the same road due to either a metro railway
diversion in place or a common wealth diversion. Google maps is certainly
stable, and for at least 95% of the city roads. While OSM is covering under
10% of the city but accuracy and POI levels are many times better than
Google Maps. I'd also like to share that we also have commercial
mapmyindia.com which has local india maps which is much better in coverage
and updations than google. yahoo maps is the worst in terms of coverage.

Regards,
Vikas

2008/11/28 Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon at au-kbc.org>

> On Friday 28 November 2008 03:06:25 pm 80n wrote:
> > Excellent. This really brings home how well OSM is progressing globally.
> >
> > BTW can you fix London, UK?  It's displaying East London, South Africa.
>
> and New Delhi is not shown at all
>
> --
> regards
> Kenneth Gonsalves
> Associate
> NRC-FOSS
> http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/
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