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OSM is great but it cannot answer those questions accurately.
by yellow_lead 3y ago
OSM 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.