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> it can be either reasonably comprehensive or a total mess depending on the city or state or something. I'm currently evaluating US coverage and this has been
by jstandard 8y ago
> it can be either reasonably comprehensive or a total mess depending on the city or state or something.
I'm currently evaluating US coverage and this has been my experience, though even cases with better coverage it still fell short of Google Maps.
It's a tough problem in the sense that people have generally gotten used to the excellent coverage of Google Maps, so anything deviating in even a minor way is seen as noticeably inferior.
I'd love to know if others are running into similar issues in the US.
- maxerickson 8y agoIf you mean business locations and the like, OSM is more or less empty in the US. Cities and towns and similar should be okay. What it amounts to is that there aren't any openly licensed business geodatabases and there aren't really that many people working on OSM in the US, especially commercial POIs (where people buy data from Yelp or Foursquare or Factual or whatever instead).