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"Hardware Stores in Alexandria VA" * Google Maps: everything you'd ever want, and correct. * Open Street Map: a Home Depot in Riverside County, CA, and a Lowe

"Hardware Stores in Alexandria VA" * Google Maps: everything you'd ever want, and correct. * Open Street Map: a Home Depot in Riverside County, CA, and a Lowes which apparently resides inside the exact same building. It is not time for me to make OpenStreetMap my only street map.

cbaleanu 13y ago
Just to clarify, OSM is a map tile data source, while they do have feature data like business locations these are usually added on top of the map, as an separate layer by other entities, not by OSM. Maintaining all those locations would mean a lot of work ( Moneygram for example has around 300.000 locations [0]) that usually involves some sort of revenue, ie displaying ads like Google does. [0] http://www.moneygram.com/MGICorp/campaigns/moneytransfer/index.htm http://www.moneygram.com/MGICorp/campaigns/moneytransfer/ind... edit: added link
Doctor_Fegg 13y ago
OSM!=osm.org
ris 13y ago
You've now added the ones you know about, I trust?
- cbaleanu 13y ago
  Not sure I follow sir
  - ris 13y ago
    OSM only gets better when people add their knowledge to it. Add your knowledge of hardware stores in your town and it will be less for the next person to complain about.