[OSM-talk] is OSM a fake map.

[john whelan]

I'm fairly lucky in that in the last three years nothing much has changed
locally.  The highways have stayed much the same.  Most buildings are still
there.

If you use Bing to add things then realistically it fills in gaps in the
map.  If you delete things because they are not in Bing that is a quite
different matter.

Does it matter if the mapper lives more than five miles away?  Well I've
mapped places a few thousand miles away but they were places I knew very
well as I used to live there.

I don't think OSM will ever be completely accurate.  Having said that it is
still very useful for many purposes.

Cheerio John


On Sun, 29 Dec 2019, 12:31 80hnhtv4agou--- via talk, <talk at openstreetmap.org>
wrote:

> it say in some wiki. to correct what you find wrong on the map,
>
> not one “other nearby users” is a current mapper, and all edits in a 5
> mile radius are not coming from an on the ground
>
> mappers in my area but 20 miles + away and are tracing from bing, and the
> images on bing in my local area are from
>
> 2016 so i do not see how the map locally is true, and it is not easy to go
> and see every thing they have done,
>
> no car or bike.
>
> every thing i do is backed up by me on mapillary, and in traces.
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