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The answer is in your post. Use OpenStreetMap. It's free as long as you respect the dataset license and you can do a lot of things with it. If you use OSM, ple
by xinayder 3y ago
The answer is in your post. Use OpenStreetMap. It's free as long as you respect the dataset license and you can do a lot of things with it.
If you use OSM, please consider contributing back by either spreading word or adding more data to the map itself.
- yellow_lead 3y agoOSM is great but it cannot answer those questions accurately.
- Ajedi32 3y agoTrue, but that's kind of a chicken-egg problem. If OSM were more popular the resulting influx of contributors and other resources would solve the data quality problem pretty quickly.
- dvdkon 3y agoNeither can Google maps. Many countries have official maps, some are even open data, but even those don't have perfect coverage of "unofficial" features like footpaths. Here in the Czech Republic, a combination of OSM and official data (ZABAGED) is the best bet, somewhere else it could be Google's data, if they made it available.
- yellow_lead 3y agoIt depends where you're looking at. In US, I think google would do pretty well - better than OSM, for I.e this ATM question. Obviously, no maps are always 100% accurate.
- dheera 3y ago> adding more data to the map itself I'd love to but it would eat into my work time and I'd get a bad performance review.