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Most of the hiking maps are simply not even on Google maps. Only in OSM
by Ayesh 6y ago
Most of the hiking maps are simply not even on Google maps. Only in OSM
- rob74 6y agoNot only hiking! Traveling to Ecuador last year was a real eye-opener. For some reason, the maps on our navigation device (TomTom) were badly out of date and incomplete (despite of course downloading the latest update before travelling), fortunately I also had OsmAnd on my phone, it saved us from getting lost multiple times...
- improbable22 6y agoIt depends a lot where you go. In places like Nepal OSM is often better than any map you can buy. In the Europe and especially the US, it's not as detailed as the national maps. They usually also have much better contours (drawn from aerial photos not from the space shuttle). But still much better than Google maps, which seems very much for cars (at least outside of cities).
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoMost of the aerial imagery used in Europe for improving OSM is shot from planes, not from space.
- improbable22 6y ago> Most of the aerial imagery used in Europe for improving OSM is shot from planes Yes I know, and not just Europe. But my comment there was specifically about contours, i.e. height data from SRTM. I'm not aware of any project to crowd-source stereo-pair contour drawing, but if you know of one, I'd be interested to have a link.
- aujar 6y agoI used for travelling or bussines only in maps.me