[OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Google Maps being "praised" for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

Paweł Paprota ppawel at fastmail.fm
Sat May 25 10:22:08 UTC 2013


On 05/25/2013 12:15 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>
>> Of course with Wikipedia it was somehow "easier" because all of their
>> work gets indexed by search engines
>
>
> Also osm is indexed by search engines
>

Sure but have you ever seen a link to OSM object (way/relation/node) in 
the internet?

When you search for Vienna or Berlin for example, Wikipedia is the top 
result. Link to OSM is nowhere to be found (at least on the first 10 
pages of search results, after that I gave up looking for it).

Paweł




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