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

[Stefan de Konink]

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Op 22-12-10 01:26, Steve Bennett schreef:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Stefan de Konink <stefan at konink.de> wrote:
>> On the Dutch mailinglist/IRC I have raised the point why Google Maps was
>> always upgraded like within weeks after we did. With different
>> information though. Like OpenStreetMap is used as a Teleatlas-Bugs or
>> something like it.
> 
> We should have some serious evidence before we start making
> accusations like that.

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=51.73157,3.94686&spn=0.002422,0.004206&z=18

Look in the history of openstreetmap.

<http://tile.openstreetmap.nl/?zoom=18&lat=51.73167&lon=3.94671&layers=B000000FFFF>

That Kijkuitsedijk example was an error that I originally made with that
road, I fixed it up this summer. Then we imported also the buildings.


>> But lets say I'm talking about _serious_ degradation here. Complete
>> streets disappeared...
> 
> Any examples?

<http://tile.openstreetmap.nl/?zoom=18&lat=52.08786&lon=4.40414&layers=B000000FFFF>

This was in Google before. It was one of the examples they suddenly took
over from us. Then I noticed yesterday:

<http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=52.087876,4.404203&spn=0.002403,0.004206&z=18>

Now I really don't care about it since all my edits are PD anyway. But
look at the canals, it became ugly, hell ugly on Google.


Stefan
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