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I take the parent comment to mean it's impressive that a community project outperforms one backed by a multi-billion dollar company - i.e. it's a compliment.
by obliobli 7y ago
I take the parent comment to mean it's impressive that a community project outperforms one backed by a multi-billion dollar company - i.e. it's a compliment.
- rmc 7y agoYep! The multi-billion dollar company doesn't see a commerical reason to get good at walking details. Cars are more profitable. So they don't put effort into it. A goal of OSM is to map _what we want mapped_, not what makes commercial sense to map.
- berkes 7y agoWhich is also a reason you'll find rural areas mapped really well in OSM and not at all in Google Maps: Why invest in a place where you cannot run advertisements? I'm not saying OSM is more complete than Google maps, just that the incentives are different and therefore the coverage is different.