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I didn't realise open street map had made so much progress, the demo page looks really nice. The satellite view is not very detailed where I was checking but ot
by Kequc 8y ago
I didn't realise open street map had made so much progress, the demo page looks really nice. The satellite view is not very detailed where I was checking but other than that I'm very impressed with the offering.
- n4r9 8y agoOpenstreetmap is just the underlying data - absolutely anyone can come along and build a program to draw images from it. That's why OSM is so powerful, and what distinguishes it from Google maps etc.
- jhowell 8y agoThat, and OSM helps you find things other than retail outlets.
- simonw 8y agoAre you suggesting OSM has better point-of-interest search than Google Maps? I love OSM, but this doesn't match my experience at all. Can you provide a bit more detail, maybe some examples of searches that OSM has better data for than Google?
- mijamo 8y agoAt least here in Sweden you have much more detailed POI info in the countryside, like rune stoned and such. In Google Maps they can be impossible to find, and even the small path leading to them do not appear.
- lucb1e 8y agoI thought the same as simonw, I guess the confusion comes from that I would interpret POI search as being shops in towns. Indeed, things like runes and other countryside things with trails leading to them, gmaps is terrible at. I guess they just don't see the money in it, so it's up to us to map it ourselves.
- Brakenshire 8y agoOSM is obviously not so good for shops, but it has incredible detail in other points of interest, down to drinking fountains and benches. Although of course it depends of how well mapped your part of the world is.
- jhowell 8y agoFor me, it's the user experience. Searching for anything recreational will bombard you with hotels, restaurants, etc. It's nice to be free of this information at times.
- lima 8y agoMaptiler is not OpenStreeMap - they're one of the many companies who productize OSM. Which is exactly the way it's meant to be.
- Kequc 8y agoI didn't understand that part. If I remember right, the open street map website used to have a demo page of their own. In any case I'm very happy to see this.
- lucb1e 8y agoOpenStreetMap's own demo page is openstreetmap.org (or osm.org). I find lima's reply also a little confusing, but I think he just means that it's fine for companies to take the data and use it for a map (and indeed it is), but I don't understand how that makes this not openstreetmap. I mean, technically OSM is the database, and the demo on their own page "is" not openstreetmap because openstreetmap isn't a demo but only a database... but I'm not sure he meant to be pedantic so I'm not sure what it meant.
- lima 8y ago"Is" as in "it's not the same entity".
- maptiler 8y agoGreat to hear you like it. You can also make your own design with the customization tool - https://www.maptiler.com/blog/2018/05/customize-your-map-in-maptiler-cloud.html https://www.maptiler.com/blog/2018/05/customize-your-map-in-...