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It 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 t
by improbable22 6y ago
It 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.