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This seems to me to be something of a hipster argument. I use Google Maps (1) because it is usually better than the competition, (2) it usually integrates well
by lettergram 13y ago
This seems to me to be something of a hipster argument. I use Google Maps (1) because it is usually better than the competition, (2) it usually integrates well with everything I have, and (3) Doesn't show me a bunch of useless information (such as walking paths).
Basically, Google Maps works better than OpenStreetMap from what I've seen (I tried using OSM, but it was hard to tell what things were being clustered and what not).
- maxerickson 13y agoWhat does "hipster argument" mean? I'm surprised at how quickly people advocating for OSM make the comparisons to Google maps. The user facing stuff at openstreetmap.org isn't comparable to maps.google.com or the various Google apps. But OpenStreetMap isn't just the tiles you see at osm.org, it is a data product that you can adapt to whatever you need, for the simple price of attribution. And while the data is not complete, the global coverage is increasingly reasonable.
- Vik1ng 13y agoI think the reason Google maps works so great now is why a lot of people support OpenStreetMap. They simply don't want a private company to have some kind of almost monopoly on good online maps, which then can dictate the rules how it is used.