> in a perfect world, it shouldn't have to. Well not exactly. E.g. in the Netherlands we have open building and address data. It took the community, with many

> in a perfect world, it shouldn't have to. Well not exactly. E.g. in the Netherlands we have open building and address data. It took the community, with many volunteers, like a year to import that into OpenStreetMap. Compiling open data into a comprehensive map without duplicate data or rough edges is a lot of work. I agree that all governments can make this a huge lot easier by just publishing what they already made with public funding, but that doesn't mean OSM would suddenly cease to have a right to exist. It would just be able to improve its quality even further. In a perfect world, rather, commercial maps shouldn't have to exist.