Indeed, that's one place where OSM's community status becomes also its weakness: coverage is correlated to other mappers' activity. As for the response - my po

Indeed, that's one place where OSM's community status becomes also its weakness: coverage is correlated to other mappers' activity. As for the response - my point lies more with its openness: with GMaps, a correction disappears into a black box, and may be rejected for whatever reason (see the example with wrongly mapped highway somewhere in this thread). With OSM, the mapping criteria are documented, starting with "the map reflects what is out there" - specifically because even official data sources are buggy, and thus only deuterocanonical to meatspace.