[OSM-talk] Why do you use Google Maps instead of OSM? Because of buildings...

Anthony osm at inbox.org
Sat Nov 7 13:32:56 GMT 2009


On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 4:00 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, we know that everyone could probably use OSM maps for their
> business website if they spent a week surveying their surrounding area
> / creating custom renderings. But that's not very helpful when they
> can just embed Google instantly and get the same results.

If they spent a week surveying their surrounding area they could
probably get much better results than Google.

If what they want is exactly what Google provides, there's really no
way to compete against that.

Anthony




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