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Yeah, this is ridiculous: https://i.xkqr.org/gmapsvsosm.png https://i.xkqr.org/gmapsvsosm.png The top one is completely unusable if you want to do anything oth
by kqr 5y ago
Yeah, this is ridiculous: https://i.xkqr.org/gmapsvsosm.png https://i.xkqr.org/gmapsvsosm.png
The top one is completely unusable if you want to do anything other than drive a car on the highway, in which case it's actually quite good.
(I picked this area specifically because it contains highway, railway, footpaths, water, residential area, industrial area, open fields, forest, and wetland. You wouldn't know, though, if you only looked at the top map. But it's not a location picked to be unfavourable to Google Maps – I sampled a few other places in the world where OSM coverage is likely to be decent, and it's the same story everywhere.)
- widerporst 5y agoI really don't get it why Google doesn't show forests at >13 zoom. I've read people claim that this makes the map easier to read. But I can't be the only one who orients himself on a map based on boundaries between forests, residential areas, and fields.
- dylan604 5y agoIs there a way to make Goog's turn-by-turn to not be street name based but instead give directions like old timers did using landmark navigation? At the old farm house, turn left. After going aways down the road, turn right at by the building with the white archways. Take the next left when you get to the statue of the first mayor.
- marssaxman 5y agoFor full flavor, you'd have to include references to landmarks which no longer exist: "if you pass the vacant lot where the old drugstore used to be, turn around, because you've gone too far."
- RicoElectrico 5y agoIn OsmAnd it displays forest as green areas in low zoom, then only tree pattern in high zoom.