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So I decided to see how to get to that nice Pho place across town .. 600 Washington Ave Philadelphia, PA 19147 or the one next door at 610 Washington Ave Philad
by schemathings 9y ago
So I decided to see how to get to that nice Pho place across town .. 600 Washington Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19147 or the one next door at 610 Washington Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19147 .. in both cases it truncates off the street number and drops me at a wrong location. Does that mean OpenStreetMap needs some assistance in that area? Even stranger if I put one of those addresses in both source and destination it does a strange 5 block loop to get back to the same wrong start point.
- maxerickson 9y agoYeah, address coverage and POI coverage are pretty spotty. The address would show on osm.org if it were in the data: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/39.93668/-75.16656 http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/39.93668/-75.16656
- aidenn0 9y agoGoogle seems to only have gotten the address coverage it has by sending vans around with cameras and then making people type in the addresses for CAPTCHAs
- maxerickson 9y agoThere is also a lot of data that has been collected by governments: http://results.openaddresses.io/ http://results.openaddresses.io/ There's a variety of reasons that such data hasn't made it to OSM (resources, licensing issues, disagreement about how it should be integrated, disagreement about whether it should be integrated, etc.)
- rmc 9y agoGoogle is also a household name, so people and companies ensure they they enter their business into Google Maps.