[OSM-talk] Did Googles map quality recently degrade?

[Steve Bennett]

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Alan Mintz
<Alan_Mintz+OSM at earthlink.net> wrote:
> IIRC, they dumped TeleAtlas about a year ago, in favor of a combination of
> PD and other cheaply-licensed sources. The quality downgrade was immediate
> and lasting. They hope that "the crowd" will correct it for them, but their
> editing model is broken enough to where I don't think that can happen. The
> sick thing is that it may not matter to their business model. Like many
> other things, you don't have to be good - just be there.

Google Maps wins because it's so easy to embed everywhere. (Well,
actually I don't know if that's true, but it's certainly perceived as
being easy to embed everywhere, by comparison with other things like
OSM.)

Steve