[OSM-talk] [Talk-us] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

Michael Kugelmann MichaelK_OSM at gmx.de
Mon Mar 17 20:55:06 UTC 2014


Am 17.03.2014 04:53, schrieb Hans Schmidt:
> If I, as a company, would use some map provider, I would definitely go
> for "at least everywhere a minimum level of coverage" instead of only a
> few places with excellent coverage.
There was a comparison about Google and OSM a fow years ago. It showed 
that even on some non-European countries (e.g. Africa) a lot of citties 
are mapped better in OSM than Google: at least at that time there was no 
financial benefit for the commercial map providers to map all these 
places. Maybe this improved a little bit, but I don't think so...


Best regards,
Michael.




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