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Open Street Map is not remotely usable in many parts of the country. Picking largely at random: South Minneapolis is pretty much unpopulated other than parks/s
by scrooched_moose 7y ago
Open Street Map is not remotely usable in many parts of the country. Picking largely at random:
South Minneapolis is pretty much unpopulated other than parks/schools/churches:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/44.9256/-93.2303 https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/44.9256/-93.2303
Same in a good chunk of Memphis:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/35.1364/-89.9691 https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/35.1364/-89.9691
and some major suburbs of Atlanta:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/33.7077/-84.2708 https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/33.7077/-84.2708
It appears to be a usability/functionality tradeoff. Apple Maps isn't perfect in privacy nor accuracy/completeness, but OSM is useless for many people.
- Doctor_Fegg 7y agoWhere “the country” is the US, of course. This doesn’t hold true in Europe at all.
- lucb1e 7y agoPlease pick truly at random, not three places in the USA. I once picked 100 random coordinates on land (by picking random coordinates and filtering out those that landed in water). OSM is by far the best. It's not even a competition. I still have to do a writeup of that some day, posting just the stats and methodology (scientific paper style) won't interest most people, and I forgot to capture screenshots, so I basically have to redo it completely. It's almost certainly different if you select random points biased by population centres, but at least know that "not remotely usable" is a very local issue (see the sibling comments about the Netherlands) and that it depends on your use case.