[OSM-talk] Driver dies in reservoir after following SatNav

Martin Trautmann traut at gmx.de
Sat Oct 9 09:50:29 BST 2010


On 10-10-05 14:49, Patrick Weber wrote:
> Here's another of these stories now common of drivers blindly
> following their satnav, unfortunately this time, the driver drowned!
>
> http://www.reghardware.com/2010/10/05/satnav_error_man_drowns/
>
> I looked up the place in Google Maps, and low and behold, all the
> roads pre-reservoir are still there ! Thanks TeleAtlas for not having
> checked your road network for the last 30 years (the reservoir was
> built in 1989!)
>
> So much for assured data quality in authoritative commercial datasets!
>
> You can compare Google and OSM's coverage here:
>
> http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/?mt0=mapnik&mt1=googlehybrid&lon=-5.09448&lat=38.84867&zoom=14


Hm, thanks for the comparison - but I feel it's not a fair one. OSM 
doesn't cover anything there at all (or at least less than 5 % around)



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